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ˈmote-hill Antiq.
Also 7 mott hill, 9 moat hill.
= mote n.2 1. (Cf. moot-hill.)
c1682J. Ochterlony Acc. Forfar in Spottisw. Misc. (1844) I. 328 Dundie Law is at the back thereof, ane exceeding high mott hill. 1805Scott Last Minstr. i. xxv, Dimly he view'd the Moat-hills mound, Where Druid shades still flitted round. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. iii. iii. 87 Of the aboriginal strongholds we have the Mote-hill or earthen mound, steeply escarped. |