moot hall

noun

1. a building in some English villages where moots were once held; town hall.

Word History and Origins

Origin of moot hall¹

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

Example Sentences

The top of the Moot Hall and other coigns of vantage had all been occupied by the Germans.

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Since then I hear that the Moot Hall has been pulled down and its site thrown into the market-place.

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Dancing, which from his boyhood he had practised on the village green, or in the old Moot Hall, was still harder to give up.

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The guildhall of the town, called by them the moot hall, to which is annexed the town gaol.

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Bunning was becoming accustomed to these evening visits of the Mayor to the Moot Hall.

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