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CIDE DICTIONARY

Montem

CIDE DICTIONARY

Montemn. [L. ad montem to the hillock. See Mount, n.].
     A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, 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.  [1913 Webster]

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