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moothill

noun

Etymology

From moot + hill.

  1. inherited from *hulliz✻ — “hill”
  2. inherited from *hulli✻ — “hill”
  3. inherited from hyll — “hill”
  4. inherited from hil — “hill”
  5. compounded as moothill — “moot + hill”

Definitions

  1. A hill or elevated place where a meeting or council took place in Saxon England.

    • The life, the sovereignty of the settlement resided solely in the body of the freeman whose holdings lay round the moothill or the sacred tree where the community met from time to time to deal out its own justice or make its own laws.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA