moothill (mothil)

[ The life, the sovereignty of the settlement, was solely in the body of the freemen whose holdings lay round the moot - hill or the sacred tree where the community met from time to time to order its own industry and to make its own laws. J. R. Green, Making of England, p. 187. moot-houset (möt'hous), n. [ moth us , mothūs , mōt , gemōt , meeting, + hus , house.] Same as moot - hall .