Sc. Obs. Forms: 5 kynbwt, -bute, 6 kinbute, 7 -but, (9 -bot). [f. KIN sb.1 + BOOT sb.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.)
c. 1425. Wyntoun, Cron., VI. xix. 2282. For a yhwman twelf markis ay Þe slaare suld for kynbwt pay.
1478. Acta Dom. Concil. (1839), 9/1. Þt walter blare sall … pay to Robert of Cargill … xxv mercis … for a kynbute.
1606. Ld. Roxburgh, in 14th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm., App. III. 32. [He then … offers a sum of money … for] kinbut and satisfaction.
[1876. A. Laing, Lindores Abbey, xxv. 328. He shall be free on payment of twenty-four merks of Kinbot.]
