• (n.) Same as Bothy.
A small building in the Scottish Highlands, where illicit distilling was practiced.
Both'ie noun Same as Bothy . [ Scot.]
A bothie (or bothy) is a house, usually of one room, for the accommodation of a number of workmen engaged in the same employment. Bothies were most common in the north-east of Scotland, and were chiefly used for the accommodation of unmarried male farm servants engaged on the larger farms, who as a rule had to do their cooking and keep the bothie i...
A building that housed an illicit still in the Scottish Highlands. Most had only a single room, or were even hidden underground.