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moot hill

moot hill is the alternative form of moothill.

Meaning of moothill

Noun

moothill (plural moothills)

  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

Forms of moot hill

pluralmoot hills

Questions about moot hill

What is moot hill the alternative form of?
Moot hill is the alternative form of moothill.

Words near moot hill in the dictionary

  1. moot
  2. moot court
  3. moot courts
  4. moot earth
  5. moot hall
  6. moot hill
  7. moot point
  8. moot points
  9. moot-axe
  10. moot-axes
  11. moot-hall

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Adapted from Wiktionary: moot hill (page history and authors); moothill (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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