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moothill

moothill noun: a hill or elevated place where a meeting or council took place in Saxon England.

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 moothill

pluralmoothills

Origin of moothill

From moot + hill.

Questions about moothill

What does moothill mean?
Moothill means a hill or elevated place where a meeting or council took place in Saxon England.
What part of speech is moothill?
Moothill is a noun.
What is the plural of moothill?
The plural of moothill is moothills.

Words near moothill in the dictionary

  1. mootchy
  2. mooted
  3. mooter
  4. mooters
  5. mootest
  6. moothill
  7. moothills
  8. mootie
  9. mooting
  10. mootings
  11. mootman

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