Booty
Booty ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Compare Icelandic bȳti exchange, barter, Swedish byte barter, booty, Danish bytte; akin to Dutch buit booty, German beute, and from Icelandic byta, Swedish byta, Danish 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
Collocations (1)
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. [Obsolete] — L'Estrange