ceorl
Americannoun
noun
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Etymology
Origin of ceorl
before 1000; this form borrowed (17th century) < Old English
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If any one fights in a ceorlish man's dwelling, let him make bot of 6s.to the ceorl.
From Our Legal Heritage : 600-1776 King Aethelbert - King George III by S. A. Reilly
Within the township every freeman or ceorl was equal.
From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by John Richard Green
Taking a less technical sense than the ceorl of Anglo-Saxon law, churl, or cherl was used in general to mean a “man,” and more particularly a “husband.”
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
And if a ceorl throve, so that had fully five hides of his own land, church and kitchen, bell-house and burh-gate-seat, and special duty in the king's hall, then was he thenceforth of thegn-right worthy.
From Popular Law-making by Frederic Jesup Stimson
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
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