Sc. form of BOOR sb.2 booty, and v.2 to make booty of, to share or divide as booty. Hence Buteing vbl. sb. (cf. BOOTING, BUTIN).
c. 1550. Balfour, Practicks (1754), 636 (Jam.). To bute and part the prizes takin. Ibid., 640. Gif it beis mair, it sall remane to bute and parting. Ibid., 640. Of all pillage, the Capitane … gettis na part nor buteing.
