Definitions for ceorls

ceorls ceorl

Spelling: [chey-awrl]
IPA: /ˈtʃeɪ ɔrl/

Ceorls is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 127 anagrams from letters in ceorls (celors).

Definitions for ceorls

noun

  1. churl (def 4).

Origin of ceorls

before 1000; this form borrowed (17th century) Old English

Examples for ceorls

An eorl could call upon the ceorl farmers for about forty days to fight off an invading group.

For the ceorl, who could not quit the land on which he was born, or free himself from slavery, life was particularly hard.

The Teutonic race had a myth which explained the origin of the classes eorl, ceorl and thrall (earl, churl and slave).

How the difference arose we do not know, but we do know that the Eorl had privileges which the ceorl had not.

It was the 'ceorl' who lived on 'gafol land,' 172 and to pay gafol was to do service, though of a limited kind.

The Eorl was hereditarily distinguished by birth, and the ceorl was a simple freeman without any such distinction.

War, in short, which was an unwelcome accident to the ceorl, was the business of life to the Gesith.

ceorl, churl, n. before the Norman Conquest an ordinary freeman not of noble birth.

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.

This status seems to be hereditary; the thegns sons are dearer born than are the sons of the ceorl.

Word Value for ceorls
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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