Moothill
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A hill or elevated place where a meeting or council took place in Saxon England. UK, historical
"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."
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From moot + hill.
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