Moot

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1. Verb

See 1st Mot.

2. Noun

A ring for gauging wooden pins.

3. Verb

To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.

4. Verb

Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.

5. Verb

To argue or plead in a supposed case.

6. Noun

A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot.

7. Verb

A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.

8. Adjective

Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.

9. Unclassified

of Mot

10. Noun

a hypothetical case that law students argue as an exercise; "he organized the weekly moot"
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