¹knight \'nit\ n [ME, fr. OE cniht; akin to OHG kneht youth, military followers, OE cnotta knot] 1 a (1) : a mounted man:arms serving a feudal superior; esp : a man ceremonially inducted into special military rank usu. after completing service as page and squire (2) : a man honored by a sovereign for merit and in Great Britain ranking below a baronet (3) : a person of antiquity equal to a knight in rank b : a man devoted to the service of a lady as her attendant or champion c : a member of an order or society 2 : either of two pieces of the same color in a set of chessmen having an L-shaped move of two squares in one row and one square in a perpendicular row over squares that may be occupied

²knight vt : to make a knight of

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