Moots?

[P&P]

Does anybody know what Moots means?

[greenrook]

A moot was Anglo-Saxon for a meeting, and came to mean the place where the meeting was to be. You occasionally hear these days of some subject 'being mooted' meaning put forward for discussion, so I suppose there's a sort of verb in there somewhere - 'I moot', he moots' etc., but I can't see it catching on!

[Nether Edge]

Nowadays, a moot is a mock trial conducted by law students to gain expertise at presenting a case and cross-examining witnesses.