† ˈmoot-house Obs.
[OE. móth{uacu}s: see moot n.1 and house n.]
= moot hall.
| c 1050 Suppl. ælfric's Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 184/8 Epicausterium, domhus, uel mothus. c 1275 Passion our Lord 304 in O.E. Misc. 46 Þe Gywes..brouhten vre louerd crist to heore mothuse. 1677 R. Thoroton Antiq. Nottinghamsh. 71 A certain Pit on the top of the Hill,..near the most westerly corner of Bingham Lordship, called Moot-house Pit, where the Hundred Court, now known by the name of Moot-house Court, is, or ought to be still kept, or called. |