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English

Alternative forms

• motte

Etymology 1

Probably ultimately from French motte; compare motte.

Noun

mott (plural motts)

1. (US, chiefly Texas) A copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm. [from 19th c.]
   • about 1900, O. Henry, Hygeia at the Solito

     They were rolling southward on the International. The timber was huddling into little, dense green motts at rare distances before the inundation of the downright, vert prairies. This was the land of the ranches; the domain of the kings of the kine.

   • 2013, Philipp Meyer, The Son, Simon & Schuster 2014, p. 39:

     We continued northwest, the grass tall with scattered thick motts of oak and the mesquites with their flickering leaves and the yuccas in bloom with their white flowers.

Etymology 2

See mort (“woman”), etymology 5.

Noun

mott (plural motts)

1. Alternative spelling of mot (“woman”)

English

Etymology

From Finnish motti.

Noun

motti (plural mottis)

1. (military) encirclement; pocket, siege, entrapment

Bruny Island

Numeral

motti

1. one

Further reading

• Norman James Brian Plomley, A Word-list of the Tasmanian Languages (1976), page 38
• Michael Walsh, Colin Yallop, Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia (1993), page 59

Finnish

Etymology

Borrowed from Swedish mått.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mot?i/, [?mo?t??i]
• Rhymes: -ot?i
• Syllabification: mot?ti

Noun

motti

1. a stere; a cubic metre of firewood.
2. (military) encirclement; pocket, siege, entrapment

Declension

Derived terms

• motittaa
• motitus

Anagrams

• motit

Italian

Noun

motti m

1. plural of motto