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Crosspiece :: Crosspiece (n.) A bar or timber connecting two knightheads or two bitts.

Chivalry :: Chivalry (n.) The dignity or system of knighthood; the spirit, usages, or manners of knighthood; the practice of knight-errantry..

Knight-errant :: Knight-errant (n.) A wandering knight; a knight who traveled in search of adventures, for the purpose of exhibiting military skill, prowess, and generosity..

Templar :: Templar (n.) One belonged to a certain order or degree among the Freemasons, called Knights Templars. Also, one of an order among temperance men, styled Good Templars..

Chivalry :: Chivalry (n.) The qualifications or character of knights, as valor, dexterity in arms, courtesy, etc..

Knight :: Knight (n.) A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head..

Sir :: Sir (n.) A title prefixed to the Christian name of a knight or a baronet.

Orle :: Orle (n.) The wreath, or chaplet, surmounting or encircling the helmet of a knight and bearing the crest..

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..

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

Cavalier :: Cavalier (n.) A military man serving on horseback; a knight.

Knighthood :: Knighthood (n.) The character, dignity, or condition of a knight, or of knights as a class; hence, chivalry..

Degradation :: Degradation (n.) The act of reducing in rank, character, or reputation, or of abasing; a lowering from one's standing or rank in office or society; diminution; as, the degradation of a peer, a knight, a general, or a bishop..

Commandery :: Commandery (n.) An assembly or lodge of Knights Templars (so called) among the Freemasons.

Knight Service :: Knight service () A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4..

Templar :: Templar (n.) One of a religious and military order first established at Jerusalem, in the early part of the 12th century, for the protection of pilgrims and of the Holy Sepulcher. These Knights Templars, or Knights of the Temple, were so named because they occupied an apartment of the palace of Bladwin II. in Jerusalem, near the Temple..

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

Donship :: Donship (n.) The quality or rank of a don, gentleman, or knight..

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

Unknight :: Unknight (v. t.) To deprive of knighthood.

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