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Mott vs Bailey - What's the difference?

mott | bailey |

As proper nouns the difference between mott and bailey

is that mott is while bailey is for a steward or official.

As a noun bailey is

an apple cultivar from new york.

mott

English

Alternative forms

* mot

Noun

(en noun)
  • (UK, slang) A prostitute.
  • (Dublin, slang) A girlfriend.
  • (US, chiefly Texas) A copse or small grove of trees, especially live oak or elm.
  • *about 1900 , O. Henry,
  • *: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.

    • bailey

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The outer wall of a feudal castle.
  • The space immediately within the outer wall of a castle or fortress.
  • A prison or court of justice; -- used in certain proper names; as, the Old Bailey in London; the New Bailey in Manchester.

    • Derived terms

    * motte-and-bailey