blote

blote (third-person singular simple present blotes, present participle bloting, simple past and past participle bloted)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To cure (herrings, etc.) by salting and smoking them; to bloat.

• “blote”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Bolte, betol, botel

Borrowed from Old Norse blóta, from Proto-Germanic *blōtaną, cognate with Gothic 𐌱𐌻𐍉𐍄𐌰𐌽 (blōtan, “to worship”).

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blote (imperative blot, infinitive at blote, present tense bloter, past tense blotede, perfect tense har blotet)

1. to make a sacrifice (especially a blood sacrifice by heathens)

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blote

1. inflection of bloot:
   1. masculine/feminine singular attributive
   2. definite neuter singular attributive
   3. plural attributive

blote (present tense blotar, past tense blota, past participle blota, passive infinitive blotast, present participle blotande, imperative blote/blot)

1. Alternative form of blóte
2. Alternative form of blòte

blote m or f (definite singular bloten or blota, indefinite plural blotar or bloter, definite plural blotane or blotene)

1. Alternative form of blòte

blōte

1. first-person singular present indicative of blōtan