Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Anglo-Saxon law, the meeting or court of a burgh or borough. Also
burgmote .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (AS. Law) A court or meeting of a burgh or borough; a borough court held three times yearly.
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- noun historical A
court ormeeting of aburgh orborough , held three times a year.
Etymologies
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burgh + mote
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Examples
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I saved you fore of the Hekkites and you loosed me hind bland Harry to the burghmote of Aud Dub.
Finnegans Wake 2006
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A Walk in and about the City of Canterbury: With Many Observations Not Hitherto Described in Any ... 1779
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