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mounted soldier serving under a feudal superior in the Middle
Ages. (in Europe in the Middle Ages) a man, usually of noble
birth, who after an apprenticeship as page and squire was raised
to honorable military rank and bound to chivalrous conduct. any
person of a rank similar to that of the medieval knight. a man
upon whom the nonhereditary dignity of knighthood is conferred
by a sovereign because of personal merit or for services
rendered to the country. In Great Britain he holds the rank next
below that of a baronet, and the title Sir is prefixed to the
Christian name, as in Sir John Smith. a member of any order or
association that designates its members as knights. Chess. a
piece shaped like a horse's head, moved one square vertically
and then two squares horizontally or one square horizontally and
two squares vertically.   1. a short vertical timber having on
its head a sheave through which running rigging is rove.   2.
any other fitting or e