ceorl
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of ceorl
before 1000; this form borrowed (17th century) < Old English
Example Sentences
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He had said to himself again and again that her father was right; that the poor ceorl, Giles Winterborne, would never have been able to make such a dainty girl happy.
From The Woodlanders by Thomas Hardy
At all events it is certain that the ceorl was frequently a holder of land, and a person of some position, and that he could attain the rank of a thegn.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
The villein was in a much happier state than the ceorl.
From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various
From forest and field came in ceorl and theow, hanging up their weapons or agricultural implements around the lower end of the hall.
From Edwy the Fair or the First Chronicle of Aescendune by A. D. (Augustine David) Crake
But king and baronage themselves had changed like townsman and ceorl.
From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by John Richard Green
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