Folk"mote` (?), n. [AS. folcmt folk meeting.]

An assembly of the people

; esp. Sax.Law,

a general assembly of the people to consider and order matters of the commonwealth; also, a local court.

[Hist.]

To which folkmote they all with one consent Agreed to travel. Spenser.

 

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