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Definition of Ceorl
1. n. A freeman of the lowest class; one not a thane or of the servile classes; a churl.
Definition of Ceorl
1. a freeman of low birth [n -S] : CEORLISH [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ceorl
Literary usage of Ceorl
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Saxons in England: A History of the English Commonwealth Till the Period by John Mitchell Kemble (1849)
"2nd class : ceorl:: 30j : 1 nearly. 3rd class : ceorl:: 15^: 1 nearly. ... Kent.
. . noble : ceorl:: 2 : 1. Now this variety, which is totally irrespective ..."
2. A History of England Under the Anglo-Saxon Kings by Johann Martin Lappenberg (1845)
"The political idea of ceorl embraced a considerable number of individuals, the
majority of whom stood in the most varied relations to the persons under whom ..."
3. A Neglected Fact in English History by Henry Charles Coote (1864)
"J Many of them attended the fyrd as horsemen, and therefore individually, which
the ceorl never did. Again, their heriots surpassed in quality and amount ..."
4. Onomasticon Anglo-saxonicum: A List of Anglo-Saxon Proper Names from the by William George Searle (1897)
"Thorpe Gen. p. 359 ceorl [847] princeps Dorset (?) Wess. BCS 451 KCD 260 ceorl [844]
dux Malm. Wess. BCS 447 KCD 1048 ceorl [851] eald. ..."
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