Word Meanings - TROW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A boat with an open well amidships. It is used in spearing fish. Knight.

Related words: (words related to TROW)

• KNIGHTLESS
  Unbecoming a knight. "Knightless guile." Spenser.
• KNIGHT BANNERET
  A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field
• SPEARMAN
  One who is armed with a spear. Acts xxiii. 23.
• 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.
• SPEARHEAD
  The pointed head, or end, of a spear.
• SPEARWORT
  A name given to several species of crowfoot which have spear-shaped leaves.
• SPEARY
  Having the form of a spear.
• KNIGHT-ERRANTRY
  The character or actions of wandering knights; the practice of wandering in quest of adventures; chivalry; a quixotic or romantic adventure or scheme. The rigid guardian of a blameless heart Is weak with rank knight-erratries o'errun. Young.
• KNIGHT TEMPLAR
  See 3
• SPEAR
  1. A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance. Note: "A sharp ground spear." Chaucer. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears
• KNIGHTLY
  Of or pertaining to a knight; becoming a knight; chivalrous; as, a knightly combat; a knightly spirit. For knightly jousts and fierce encounters fit. Spenser. full knightly without scorn. Tennyson.
• SPEARMINT
  A species of mint growing in moist soil. It vields an aromatic oil. See Mint, and Mentha.
• KNIGHT SERVICE
  A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4.
• KNIGHTHOOD
  1. The character, dignity, or condition of a knight, or of knights as a class; hence, chivalry. "O shame to knighthood." Shak. If you needs must write, write Cæsar's praise; You 'll gain at least a knighthood, or the bays. Pope. 2. The whole body
• KNIGHT'S FEE
  The fee of a knight; specif., the amount of land the holding of which imposed the obligation of knight service, being sometimes a hide or less, sometimes six or more hides.
• KNIGHT-ER-RATIC
  Pertaining to a knight-errant or to knight-errantry. Quart. Rev.
• KNIGHT SERVICE; KNIGHT'S SERVICE
  1. The military service by rendering which a knight held his lands; also, the tenure of lands held on condition of performing military service. By far the greater part of England is held of the king by knight's service. . . . In
• KNIGHT-ERRANT
  A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity.
• KNIGHT MARSHAL
  An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one of the parties. Wharton.
• KNIGHT BARONET
  See BARONET
• UNKNIGHT
  To deprive of knighthood. Fuller.
• ALE-KNIGHT
  A pot companion.
• SHAKESPEAREAN
  Of, pertaining to, or in the style of, Shakespeare or his