Definition of Earlships

1. earlship [n] - See also: earlship

Lexicographical Neighbors of Earlships

earlier
earlies
earliest
earlike
earliness
earlinesses
earlobe
earlobes
earlock
earlocks
earloop
earloops
earls
earlshannonite
earlship
earlships (current term)
early
early(a)
early-bound
early-morning hour
early-phase response
early-type star
early adopter
early adopters
early ambulation
early bath
early binding
early bird
early bird catches the worm
early birds

Literary usage of Earlships

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of English Law by William Searle Holdsworth, John Burke (1903)
""A vast amount of land is or has recently been held by office holders, by the holders of the kingship, the earlships, ..."

2. Saints and Sinners, Or, In Church and about it by Doran (John) (1868)
"We will have no more of these earlships tacked on to bishoprics," was what the law said under William IV.—and therewith the mixed title came to an end. ..."

3. Early English Literature (To Wiclif) by Bernhard Aegidius Konrad ten Brink, Horace Milton Kennedy (1883)
"... of the class of freemen, the formation of the new great earlships. It would be equally easy to point out the obstacles in the intellectual life of the ..."

4. History of English Literature by Bernhard Aegidius Konrad ten Brink, Alois Brandl (1904)
"... the decline of the class of freemen, the formation of the new great earlships. It would be equally easy to point out the obstacles in the intellectual ..."

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