Vocabulary : Knifeboard to Knight service

Knifeboard : A board on which knives are cleaned or polished.
Knifed : of Knife
Knife-edge : A piece of steel sharpened to an acute edge or angle, and resting on a smooth surface, serving as the axis of motion of a pendulum, scale beam, or other piece required to oscillate with the least possible friction.
Knifing : of Knife
Knight : A young servant or follower; a military attendant. ;; In feudal times, a man-at-arms serving on horseback and admitted to a certain military rank with special ceremonies, including an oath to protect the distressed, maintain the right, and live a stainless life. ;; One on whom knighthood, a dignity next below that of baronet, is conferred by the sovereign, entitling him to be addressed as Sir; as, Sir John. ;; A champion; a partisan; a lover. ;; A piece used in the game of chess, usually bearing a horse's head. ;; A playing card bearing the figure of a knight; the knave or jack. ;; To dub or create (one) a knight; -- done in England by the sovereign only, who taps the kneeling candidate with a sword, saying: Rise, Sir ---.

Knight bachelor : A knight of the most ancient, but lowest, order of English knights, and not a member of any order of chivalry. See Bachelor, 4.
Knight banneret : A knight who carried a banner, who possessed fiefs to a greater amount than the knight bachelor, and who was obliged to serve in war with a greater number of attendants. The dignity was sometimes conferred by the sovereign in person on the field of battle.
Knight baro-net : See Baronet.
Knight marshal : An officer in the household of the British sovereign, who has cognizance of transgressions within the royal household and verge, and of contracts made there, a member of the household being one of the parties.
Knight service : A tenure of lands held by knights on condition of performing military service. See Chivalry, n., 4. ;; Alt. of Knight's service

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