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- Churl - Wikipedia
A churl (Old High German karal), in its earliest Old English (Anglo-Saxon) meaning, was simply "a man" or more particularly a "free man", [1] but the word soon came to mean "a non-servile peasant ", still spelled ċeorl (e), and denoting the lowest rank of freemen
- CHURL Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of CHURL is ceorl
- churl - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
churl (plural churls) (feudalism, obsolete except historical) A free peasant (as opposed to a serf) of the lowest rank, below an earl and a thane; a freeman; also (more generally), a person without royal or noble status; a commoner quotations
- CHURL Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
Churl definition: a rude, boorish, or surly person See examples of CHURL used in a sentence
- CHURL definition in American English | Collins English Dictionary
There was a surge of muttering among the guardsmen, but most of it seemed to be agreement that the young man was more churl than Charl Freemen, called "churls", formed the next level of society, often holding land in their own right or controlling businesses in the towns
- Churl - definition of churl by The Free Dictionary
churl (tʃɜrl) n 1 a rude, boorish, or surly person 2 a peasant; rustic 3 a niggard; miser
- churl, n. meanings, etymology and more | Oxford English Dictionary
To put a churl upon a gentleman; to drink malt liquor immediately after having drank wine
- churl — Wordorigins. org
Prior to the Norman Conquest, a churl was a free man, a respectable estate But after the Normans took over, many churls were reduced to serfdom, and the word acquired a negative connotation
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