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Took a load of corn and stole a half-bushel; mooter, or multure, is the toll of meal taken by the miller for grinding the corn: mooter-poke, or multure-pocket, is accordingly a nickname for a miller.

From Yorkshire Dialect Poems (1673-1915) and traditional poems by Moorman, Frederic William

Poliolioli contests that it was the 17th, but this, I venture to say, is even a "mooter" point than the other.

From Terribly Intimate Portraits by Loraine, Lorn