Obs. [f. BOOT v.1 + -ING1.]
1. Relieving, curing, healing, helping; payment to the good; service, avail.
c. 1300. K. Alis., 5711. The kyng … Yaf al his folk betyng [v.r. botyng].
1426. Audelay, Poems, 15. Our Kyng … That mai us salve of oure sore, oure botyng to us bryng?
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 45. Botynge or encrese yn byynge, licitamentum, liciarium.
1591. Harington, Epigr., II. (1633), 98. But let alone, Lynus, it is no booting.
2. Comb. † Booting-corn. See quot.
1670. Blount, Law Dict., s.v., The Tenants … paid Booting Corn to the Prior of Rochester.… Perhaps it was so called, as being paid by the Tenants, by way of Bote … or compensation to the Lord, for his making them Leases, &c.
