Ceorl is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.
You can make 55 anagrams from letters in ceorl (celor).
before 1000; this form borrowed (17th century) Old English
The owner of two hydes of land was ranked above a ceorl, or simple farmer, while the owner of twelve hydes was a royal thane.
The Teutonic race had a myth which explained the origin of the classes eorl, ceorl and thrall (earl, churl and slave).
The Eorl was hereditarily distinguished by birth, and the ceorl was a simple freeman without any such distinction.
ceorl, churl, n. before the Norman Conquest an ordinary freeman not of noble birth.
An eorl could call upon the ceorl farmers for about forty days to fight off an invading group.
This status seems to be hereditary; the thegns sons are dearer born than are the sons of the ceorl.
War, in short, which was an unwelcome accident to the ceorl, was the business of life to the Gesith.
For the ceorl, who could not quit the land on which he was born, or free himself from slavery, life was particularly hard.
It was the 'ceorl' who lived on 'gafol land,' 172 and to pay gafol was to do service, though of a limited kind.
How the difference arose we do not know, but we do know that the Eorl had privileges which the ceorl had not.
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