Mon"tem (?), n. [L. ad montem to the hillock. See Mount, n.]

A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of giing every third year, on Whit Tuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.

 

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