Usage examples (30)

• One compound of ceorl was the word ceorlstrang strong as a man, used to describe exceptional women and boys.
• Maybe it's intended to reflect a real or imagined class difference, with the ceorl class cast as hobbits and the eorl class cast as Rohirric warriors.
• The eorl and ceorl were the great distinctive appellations of noble and ignoble descent: none were or are admitted, it will be seen, to any important office in the...
• Little do I know of it, save to scold a ceorl or a nurse.