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moothill en · NOUN

Etymology

From moot + hill.

Meanings

1. (UK, historical) 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. 1874, John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People:

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