The Collaborative International Dictionary
swanimote
Swainmote \Swain"mote`\, n. [Swain + mote meeting: cf. LL.
swanimotum.] (Eng. Forest Law)
A court held before the verders of the forest as judges, by
the steward of the court, thrice every year, the swains, or
freeholders, within the forest composing the jury. [Written
also swanimote, and sweinmote.]
--Blackstone.
Wiktionary
swanimote
n. (alternative form of swainmote English)
Usage examples of "swanimote".
This doubtless explained why Tiberius had taken to filling his larder with royal game, earning himself a heavy and quite probably unpaid fine from the Swanimote Court at the rumoured bidding of chief woodward Longrigg, whose long ago courtship of Dorothea was sure to have a bearing on the case.