Meanings
plural halmotes · alternative hallmote
- historicalA court held by the lord of a manor within his hall.
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.
1969, Philip Ziegler, The Black Death, Folio Society, published 2006, page 161
Origin
- Old English*heallġemōt
- Englishhalmote
From Old English *heallġemōt (unattested), from heall (“hall”) + ġemōt (“meeting”).
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halmote. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/halmote
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