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Garter :: Garter (n.) The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself..

Companion :: Companion (n.) A knight of the lowest rank in certain orders; as, a companion of the Bath..

Knight-errantries :: Knight-errantries (pl. ) of Knight-errantr.

Knighthead :: Knighthead (n.) A bollard timber. See under Bollard.

Chivalric :: Chivalric (a.) Relating to chivalry; knightly; chivalrous.

Accolade :: Accolade (n.) A ceremony formerly used in conferring knighthood, consisting am embrace, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat blade of a sword..

Varlet :: Varlet (n.) A servant, especially to a knight; an attendant; a valet; a footman..

Chivalry :: Chivalry (n.) A tenure of lands by knight's service; that is, by the condition of a knight's performing service on horseback, or of performing some noble or military service to his lord..

Mantelet :: Mantelet (n.) A short cloak formerly worn by knights.

Escuage :: Escuage (n.) Service of the shield, a species of knight service by which a tenant was bound to follow his lord to war, at his own charge. It was afterward exchanged for a pecuniary satisfaction. Called also scutage..

Knight Bachelor :: Knight bachelor () A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4..

Knightage :: Knightage (n.) To body of knights, taken collectively..

Knighthood :: Knighthood (n.) The whole body of knights.

Knight :: Knight (n.) One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John..

Custrel :: Custrel (n.) An armor-bearer to a knight.

Knight :: Knight (n.) A champion; a partisan; a lover.

Armiger :: Armiger (n.) Formerly, an armor bearer, as of a knight, an esquire who bore his shield and rendered other services. In later use, one next in degree to a knight, and entitled to armorial bearings. The term is now superseded by esquire..

Dub :: Dub (v. t.) To confer knighthood upon; as, the king dubbed his son Henry a knight..

Squire :: Squire (n.) A shield-bearer or armor-bearer who attended a knight.

Knight :: Knight (n.) In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life..

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