 4 definitions found
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
booty
noun: goods or money obtained illegally [syn: {loot}, {pillage}, {plunder},
{prize}, {swag}, {dirty money}]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Booty \Boo"ty\, noun [Cf. Icel. b[=y]ti exchange, barter, Sw. byte
barter, booty, Dan. bytte; akin to D. buit booty, G. beute,
and fr. Icel. byta, Sw. byta, Dan. bytte, to distribute,
exchange. The Scandinavian word was influenced in English by
boot profit.]
That which is seized by violence or obtained by robbery,
especially collective spoil taken in war; plunder; pillage.
--Milton.
{To play booty}, to play dishonestly, with an intent to lose;
to allow one's adversary to win at cards at first, in
order to induce him to continue playing and victimize him
afterwards. [Obs.] --L'Estrange.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
30 Moby Thesaurus words for "booty":
bag, blackmail, boodle, capture, catch, contraband, gain, graft,
haul, hot goods, loot, perks, perquisite, pickings, plunder,
pork barrel, prize, public till, public trough, seizure, spoil,
spoils, spoils of office, squeeze, stealings, stolen goods, swag,
take, takings, till
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Booty
captives or cattle or objects of value taken in war. In Canaan
all that breathed were to be destroyed (Deut.
20: 16). The
"pictures and images" of the Canaanites were to be destroyed
also (Num. 33:52). The law of booty as to its division is laid
down in Num. 31:26-47. David afterwards introduced a regulation
that the baggage-guard should share the booty equally with the
soldiers engaged in battle. He also devoted of the spoils of war
for the temple (1 Sam. 30:24-26; 2 Sam. 8:11; 1 Chr. 26:27).
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