knight's service

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   land tenure by service to the lord as a knight

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Questions about knight's service

What does knight's service mean?

knight's service means "land tenure by service to the lord as a knight".

Is knight's service a common word?

knight's service is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.