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. býti ‘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. Ibid. (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, trans. 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.
