wardmote

From Middle English wardmote. Equivalent to ward +‎ moot.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈwɔːdməʊt/

wardmote (plural wardmotes)

1. (historical) A meeting of the inhabitants of a ward, especially in the City of London.
   • 2012, Jerry White, London in the Eighteenth Century, Bodley Head, published 2017, page 121:

     Association was built into the structure of communal government in the City's wardmotes and precinct meetings and in the open vestries of many suburban parishes.

2. (historical) A court formerly held in each ward of London, England for trying defaults in matters relating to the watch, police, and the like.

• damewort, meadwort, metaword, to meward, two-armed

wardmote (plural wardmotes)

1. wardmote
   • c. 1370–1390, [William Langland], “[Prologue]”, in The Vision of Pierce Plowman [...], London: […] Roberte Crowley, […], published 1550, →OCLC:

     Somme seruen þe kyng · and his siluer tellen / In cheker and in chancerye · chalengen his dettes / Of wardes and wardmotes · weyues and streyues.

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