What is "moots"

Usage examples of "moots".

Gorde on the other side of the millstream fell from fifty to thirty shillings, Mesewelle up the river fell by half and even Flesching farther away, where the hundred moots had been held, was almost as bad.

With the situation as it is in the north, with all this to-ing and fro-ing, councils and moots and so forth, normal procedures fall by the wayside.

Here in the Moots des Lyonnais and the Forez we have a foreland of the utmost antiquity cheek-by-jowl with recent volcanic intrusions.

The whole old comforting system of the moots, where every man had a right to go and speak his mind, had been swept away.

Often in the moots he stood up not only for his own tribe but for others, on behalf of their ancient rights.

I know not how it is that you presume to know anything of private moots or who attended them, but it is true that he has been part of our councils, yes .