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单词 moothill
释义

moothill

English

Etymology

moot + hill

Noun

moothill (plural moothills)

  1. (UK, law, obsolete) A hill or elevated place where a meeting or council took place in Saxon England.
    • 1874, John Richard Green, A Short History of the English People
      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.

References

moot-hill in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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