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† kinboot Sc. Obs.
Forms: 5 kynbwt, -bute, 6 kinbute, 7 -but, (9 -bot).
[f. kin n.1 + boot n.1 9.]
A wergeld or man-boot paid by a homicide to the kin of the person slain. (Not the same as the OE. cynebót or royal compensation.)
c1425Wyntoun Cron. vi. xix. 2282 For a yhwman twelf markis ay Þe slaare suld for kynbwt pay. 1478Acta Dom. Concil. (1839) 9/1 Þt walter blare sall..pay to Robert of Cargill..xxv mercis..for a kynbute. 1606Ld. Roxburgh in 14th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. iii. 32 [He then..offers a sum of money..for] kinbut and satisfaction. [1876A. Laing Lindores Abbey xxv. 328 He shall be free on payment of twenty-four merks of Kinbot.] |