halmote

English

Alternative forms

• hallmote

Etymology

From Old English *heallġemōt (unattested), from heall (“hall”) + ġemōt (“meeting”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔːlməʊt/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔlmoʊt/

Noun

halmote (plural halmotes)

1. (historical) A court held by the lord of a manor within his hall.
   • 1969, Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, Folio Society, published 2006, page 161:

     At Easington, the next centre for the halmote, things were even worse. The steward offered to make payment of rent contingent on the tenant's survival of the plague but even this could not tempt the nervous peasants into taking on any new responsibility.

Anagrams

• Lamothe, holmate