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maegbote
maegbote
English
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Noun
maegbote (plural maegbotes or maegboten)
- Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman.
- Magbote or Mægbote, a Recompence anciently made in Money for the killing of one's Kinsman. — Phillips's New World of Words (ed. 6), 1706
References
- Oxford English Dictionary (maegbot)