In Saxon law. A meeting or moot; a convention; a public assemblage. These were of several sorts, such, as the witena-gemot, or meeting of the wise men; the folc-gemot, or general assembly of the people; the shirc-gemot, or county court; the burg-gemot, or borough court; the hundred-gemot, or hundred court; the hali-gemot, or court-baron; the hal-mote, a convention of citizens in their public hall; the holy-mote, or holy court; the swein-gemote, or forest court; the ward-mote, or ward court. Wharton; Cunningham.