Definitions for housecarl

housecarl house·carl

Spelling: [hous-kahrl]
IPA: /ˈhaʊsˌkɑrl/

Housecarl is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 715 anagrams from letters in housecarl (acehlorsu).

Definitions for housecarl

noun

  1. a member of the household troops or bodyguard of a Danish or early English king or noble.

Origin of housecarl

before 1050; Middle English; late Old English hūscarl Danish hūskarl. See house, carl

Examples for housecarl

Whereon the housecarl laughed a little, and said that it was but an ancient flint working.

Odin, how good it is to meet a housecarl who speaks as man to man and does not cringe to me!

Good it has been to have you here; and I think that I shall see you as a housecarl for good yet.

"Now is East Anglia mine in truth," he said; and with that he bade the housecarl fetch Curan, the cook's porter, to him.

And presently I thought that I might do worse than be a housecarl for a time, if Eglaf would have me.

"That, I take it, is a hint that you might like to be a housecarl of the king's," he said.

Presently Erling came alongside me, leaving the housecarl to mind his comrade.

Word Value for housecarl
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