barmote

• barghmote, berghmote, bergmote (obsolete)

From earlier barghmote, berghmote. Compare barmaster.

barmote (plural barmotes)

1. A court held in Derbyshire, England, for deciding controversies between miners.
   • 1732, Daniel Defoe, A Tour thro' the Whole Island of Great Britain:

     The Barmoot Court, kept at Wirksworth, to judge Controversies among the Miners, and adjust subterranean Quarrels and Disputes.

• “barmote”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• bromate