▪ I. mooter1
(ˈmuːtə(r))
Forms: 1 mótere, 3 motere, 4 mutere, 5 mootiere, motare, muter, mwter, 6– mooter.
[f. moot v.1 + -er1.]
One who moots, in senses of the vb.
† 1. A speaker; one who argues or discusses, a lawyer who argues cases in a court of justice, a pleader; one who discusses a moot case. Obs.
| a 1000 Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 212/16 Contionator, i. locutor, motere, uel maþelere. a 1225 Leg. Kath. 725 Maxence..bed bringen biforen him Þeos modi moteres. c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints xxxvi. (Baptista) 968 Þis alisander can so lere, Þat he wes a gud mutere. c 1430 Pilgr. Lyf Manhode iv. xix. (1869) 185 And for our mootiere þou art, and our sergeantesse we [etc.]. 1483 Cath. Angl. 247/2 A Muter, actor, aduocatus. a 1500 Ratis Raving i. 990 Trow weil, It mone be swa, ore vere, Fra þow be mwter at the bare. 1580 Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tongue, Declamateur, a Declaimer, a moocer [read mooter]. 1637 J. Williams Holy Table 72 For the Case must be taken as it is in the Letter..not as this poore Mooter doth reasonably (that is, against all the Laws of reasoning) presume it. 1706 Phillips (ed. Kersey), Moot-men or Mooters, Students at Law, who argue Reader's Cases. 1827 Mirror II. 151/2 An expounder of the laws, an arbiter of quibble mooters. |
2. One who starts or proposes a question, etc.
| 1844 Hood On a Certain Locality 2 Of public changes, good or ill, I seldom lead the mooters. 1891 Q. Rev. Oct. 322 One Professor Beddoes was its mooter. |
▪ II. mooter2 Ship-building.
(ˈmuːtə(r))
[f. moot n.2 + -er1.]
1. (See quots.)
| 1750 T. R. Blanckley Nav. Expositor, Mooter, is the Person who (after the Tree-Nails which are received into Store, rough from the Merchant) makes them smooth, and of proper Sizes. 1815 [see moot n.2] In some recent Dicts. |
2. A spike, bolt, treenail.
| 1867 Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. |
▪ III. mooter
obs. form of multure.