'Booty' definitions:
Definition of 'booty'
From: WordNet
Definition of 'Booty'
From: GCIDE
- Booty \Boo"ty\, n. [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. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Booty'
From: 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).
Synonyms of 'booty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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