See knyght on Wiktionary
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"text": "[Þ]au pilatuſ him come wid ten hu[n]dꝛed cniſteſ. / yet ic wolde louerd foꝛ þi loue fiſte.",
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"text": "What ys he, þys lordling, þat cometh vrom þe vyht, / Wyth blodrede wede so grysliche ydyht, / So vayre ycoyntised, so semlich in syht, / So styflyche ȝóngeþ, so douhti a knyht?",
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],
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72,
79
]
],
"english": "The rudder was neither oak or elm: / It was Edward the Third, the noble warrior!",
"ref": "c. 1390, “Edward þe þridde”, in Sowlehele (Vernon Lyrics, Bodleian MS. Eng. poet. a. 1), Worcestershire, folio 411, recto; republished at Oxford: Digital Bodleian, 2019 January 10:",
"text": "¶ Þe Roþ᷑. was nouþer. Ok. ne Elm⹎ / Hit was Edward þe þridde. þe noble kniht.",
"translation": "The rudder was neither oak or elm: / It was Edward the Third, the noble warrior!",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A warrior; a fighter."
],
"links": [
[
"warrior",
"warrior"
],
[
"fighter",
"fighter"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(figuratively) A warrior; a fighter."
],
"tags": [
"figuratively"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Early Middle English"
],
"glosses": [
"A servant or attendant."
],
"links": [
[
"servant",
"servant"
],
[
"attendant",
"attendant"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chiefly Early Middle English) A servant or attendant."
],
"tags": [
"Early-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"Early Middle English"
],
"glosses": [
"A boy or youth."
],
"links": [
[
"boy",
"boy"
],
[
"youth",
"youth"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(Early Middle English) A boy or youth."
],
"tags": [
"Early-Middle-English"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"enm:Chess"
],
"glosses": [
"A knight (chess piece)"
],
"links": [
[
"chess",
"chess"
],
[
"knight",
"knight"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(chess) A knight (chess piece)"
],
"topics": [
"board-games",
"chess",
"games"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/knixt/"
},
{
"ipa": "/kniːxt/"
},
{
"ipa": "/kniːt/",
"note": "dialectal or late"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ixt"
}
],
"word": "knyght"
}
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"called_from": "inflection/735",
"msg": "inflection table: unrecognized header: '(nominative/accusative)'",
"path": [
"knyght"
],
"section": "Middle English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "knyght",
"trace": ""
}
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