Knight-errantry | Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

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Errantry
·noun The employment of a knight-errant. II. Errantry ·noun A wandering; a roving; ·esp., a roving ...

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Knight
·noun A champion; a partisan; a lover. II. Knight ·noun A young servant or follower; a military att...

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Ale-knight
·noun A pot companion. ...

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Knight bachelor
·- A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order...

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Knight banneret
·- A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, ...

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Knight marshal
·- An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within...

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Knight service
·add. ·- ·Alt. of Knight's service. II. Knight service ·- A tenure of lands held by knights on cond...

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Knight Templar
·- ·see <<Commandery>>, ·noun, 3, and also Templar, ·noun, 1 and 3. ...

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Knight-errant
·noun A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiti...

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Knight-errantries
·pl of Knight-errantry. ...

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Knight-errants
·pl of Knight-errant. ...

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Knight, Charles
(1791-1873) Publisher and writer, b. at Windsor, where his f.. was a bookseller. After serving his ...

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carpet-knight
A man who obtains knighthood on a pretence for services in which he never participated. ...

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knight-heads
Two large oak timbers, one on each side of the stem, rising up sufficiently above it to support the ...

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lance-knight
A foot-soldier of old. ...

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Knight baro-net
·- ·see <<Baronet>>. ...

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Knight-er-ratic
·adj Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry. ...

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Knight, Henry Gally
(1786-1846) A country gentleman of Yorkshire, ed. at Eton and Camb., was the author of several Orie...

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knight of the blade
A bully. ...

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knight of the post
A false evidence, one that is ready to swear any thing for hire. ...

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knight of the rainbow
A footman: from the variety of colours in the liveries and trimming of gentlemen of that cloth. ...

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knight of the road
A highwayman. ...

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knight of the sheers
A taylor. ...

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knight of the thimble
A taylor or stay-maker. ...

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knight of the whip
A coachman. ...

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knight of the trencher
A great eater. ...

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knight and barrow pig
more hog than gentleman. A saying of any low pretender to precedency. ...

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