Usually means: Feudal tenure by military duty.
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  1. knight service: Merriam-Webster
  2. knight service: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. knight-service, knight service: Wordnik
  4. knight-service, knight service: Wiktionary
  5. Knight service: Dictionary.com
  6. Knight-service, Knight service: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. Knight service: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  8. Knight service: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  9. knight-service: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  10. knight service: FreeDictionary.org
  11. Knight service: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Knight-service, knight service: Encyclopedia

Definitions from Wiktionary (knight service)

noun:  (historical, law) The military service a knight owed to his chief lord as a condition of holding title to his lands and rank.
noun:  (historical, inexact) Synonym of knight's fee, the system of land tenure based on such service.

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