† butin Obs.
Also 5–6 butyn, 6 butyne, -en, -ine, -iene, 7 bootyn, Sc. 6–7 buiting, but(e)ing.
[a. F. butin ‘booty’; according to Littré, from ON. b{yacu}ti ‘exchange, barter’ (cf. MG. bûten, mod.Ger. beute), though the actual form in Fr. does not appear to be explained. Cf. booty.]
Spoil, prey, or plunder, taken in common; booty.
| 1474 Caxton Chesse 39 He that abode behynde by maladye or sekenes shold haue as moche part of the butyn. 1475 ― Jason 31 b, Whan they had departed their gayn and butin. 1530 Palsgr. 653, I parte a butyne, or a pray taken in the warre. 1531 Elyot Gov. ii. i. (1557) 86 It is no buten or praie. 1573 Sege Edin. Cast. in Scot. Poems 16th C. II. 294 Sum gat ane butiene for thair being thair. 1597 Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 208 Quha bringis hame the buiting? 1635 J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Banish'd Virgin 196 Good store of bootyn. 1646 H. Lawrence Comm. Angels 169 Captaines, when they harrang their Souldiers, tell them of the butin, of the prey. |