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(historical) A sworn officer in England, whose duty was to inspect woollen cloth and fix a seal upon it.
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(obsolete) A knight who had no standard of his own, but fought under the standard of another in the field.
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A gallant warrior; a handsome or dashing adventurer.
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The black and white standard of the Knights Templar.
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(transitive, rare) To make a knight of.
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An earl whose title goes back to the period prior to the 18th century when a sword and belt received from the monarch were tokens of that title.
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A man who has been knighted and received a belt and sword as the tokens of his knighthood.
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(fiction) A villain or evil character who masks their identity and that of their liege by not displaying heraldry.
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(historical, derogatory) The soldiers of General Edward Brabant, British military commander in colonial South Africa.
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A warrior, in Spanish contexts.
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(historical) One made a knight during a time of peace and therefore for some reason other than military distinction or service.
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cavalier, courtly gentleman
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(historical) A courtesan or noble under Charles I of England, particularly a royalist partisan during the English Civil War which ended his reign.
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(archaic) A cavalier; a gallant; a libertine.
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(historical) A cavalier; a knight.
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(dated) Synonym of knight of industry (“footpad, thief or sharper”)
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(obsolete) The fact or condition of being a knight; knightly skill, prowess.
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Obsolete spelling of chivalry [(now rare, historical) Cavalry; horsemen armed for battle.]
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(historical) A fighter in the medieval Crusades who had taken the Cross.
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A knight's attendant or man-at-arms; a knave.
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A rank in some knightly orders.
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One who dubs, or gives a name.
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(Indian subcontinent) A meeting held between local commanders on, or near to, a political border to resolve border conflicts.
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(heraldry) A chivalric order founded in 1430 by Duke Philip III of Burgundy. Later awarded in Spain and Habsburg Austria.
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(Britain, slang) A medal or award, particularly Knight Bachelor.
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(obsolete) A champion; a knight.
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Abbreviation of kingsman. (in the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment) [(military) The lowest enlisted rank in the Duke of Lancaster's Regiment of the British Army, equivalent to private in the rest of the British Army.]
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Alternative form of king-of-arms [One of the three chief heralds of the College of Arms, designated as Garter (Principal King of Arms), Clarenceux (for England south of the Trent and Wales), and Norroy & Ulster (for England north of the Trent and Northern Ireland).]
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One of the three chief heralds of the College of Arms, designated as Garter (Principal King of Arms), Clarenceux (for England south of the Trent and Wales), and Norroy & Ulster (for England north of the Trent and Northern Ireland).
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obsolete typography of knave [(archaic) A boy; especially, a boy servant.]
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(by extension) An armored and mounted warrior of the Middle Ages.
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(Britain) A man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organized Orders of Chivalry; the lowest rank of knight in the British honours system.
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(law, historical) A knight entitled to subinfeudate his estate and to lead troops under his own banner.
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Alternative spelling of Knight Bachelor [(Britain) A man who has been knighted by the monarch but not as a member of one of the organized Orders of Chivalry; the lowest rank of knight in the British honours system.]
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(heraldry, obsolete, England) a knight of the common birth who acted as a herald, messenger, and arms-bearer for a noble house and was distinguished by travelling on foot, by his two-color coat, and by his startups (“a kind of thigh-high boots”)
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Alternative form of knight-errant [A knight in a medieval romance who wanders in search of adventure and opportunities to prove his chivalry.]
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(idiomatic) A person who will rescue a dangerous situation; a hero.
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Alternative spelling of knight in shining armor [(idiomatic) A person who will rescue a dangerous situation; a hero.]
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(UK, historical) An officer in the royal household, responsible for maintaining order in court.
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(obsolete) A footpad, thief, or sharper.
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(dated, humorous, colloquial) A gambler.
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(dated, humorous, colloquial) A gambler.
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(humorous, archaic) A auctioneer.
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(humorous, archaic) A tailor.
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(figuratively, humorous) An author or journalist.
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(humorous, archaic) An apothecary; a druggist.
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(obsolete, idiomatic) A known perjurer; a professional false witness.
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(humorous, archaic) A tailor.
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(UK, obsolete) A Member of Parliament for a county.
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(humorous, archaic) A tailor.
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(historical, inexact) Synonym of knight's fee, the system of land tenure based on such service.
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(historical) A knightly member of the crusader age military order of Templars
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A person who displays an adventurous or a quixotic spirit.
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The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures.
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Alternative form of knight service [(historical, law) The military service a knight owed to his chief lord as a condition of holding title to his lands and rank.]
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(rare) Worthy of knighthood.
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(uncountable) The sphere or world of knights; knights collectively
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The knights collectively, the body of knights.
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A small or petty knight.
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Quality of being knightly.
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Knightly; bold, gallant, etc.
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knightly behaviour; chivalry
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A small or petty knight.
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(chess, humorous, informal) A figurative nightmare involving a knight, e.g. a crushing knight move or a hopeless situation involving a knight.
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Alternative form of knightess [(rare) A female knight.]
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(historical) A chiefly military order of medieval knights that existed for nearly two centuries during the Crusades
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(mathematics, computing) A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.
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(pertaining to motion over a square grid, by extension) Having slope 2, with 2n vertical steps and n horizontal steps (with n being some positive integer), or vice versa, with each move.
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Obsolete spelling of knight [(historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.]
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post-nominal letters for knight bachelor
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Abbreviation of knight. [(historical) A young servant or follower; a trained military attendant in service of a lord.]
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(countable, historical) Any of a class of German mercenaries of the 15th and 16th centuries, most of whom were pikemen and foot soldiers.
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(rare, historical or archaic) One disciplined and devoted to learning; a student or disciple.
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(countable) An association of knights.
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An order which (at least mainly) consists of members who receive and/or most have the knighthood, hence constitutes an honorific brotherhood (in modern times often open to both genders, in rare cases a sisterhood) of knights (and/or, as female equivalent, dames). The hierarchical structure, purpose, activities (in many cases rare and mainly ceremonious), titles and insignia vary widely.
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A heroic champion, especially a knight.
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A chivalric feat of arms involving the forcing of a passage protected by a knight or a group of knights.
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(obsolete) A lady's favour or token as worn by a knight.
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A legendary English outlaw famous for his skill in archery and his vow to defend the poor and the oppressed against established authority.
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Alternative letter-case form of Scouser [(Liverpudlian, colloquial) A Liverpudlian.]
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A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.
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A Knight Templar, one of the Knights Templar.
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(historical) Specifically, a youth acting as a knight's attendant at the beginning of his training for knighthood.
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(figuratively, derogatory) To unnecessarily defend someone, especially in an attempt to gain favour.
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Alternative form of white knight [(figuratively, derogatory) To unnecessarily defend someone, especially in an attempt to gain favour.]
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Alternative form of white knight [(figuratively, derogatory) To unnecessarily defend someone, especially in an attempt to gain favour.]
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(historical) be knighted
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Alternative form of witenagemot (“Anglo-Saxon assembly”) [(historical, usually uncountable, sometimes countable) Any of several assemblies which existed in Anglo-Saxon England from the 7th to the 11th century, initially with regional jurisdiction (there being different ones in Essex, Kent, Mercia, Northumbria, Sussex and Wessex), later with national jurisdiction, made up of important noblemen.]
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