English Dictionary

churl

/tʃɜːl/

noun

A free peasant (as opposed to a serf) of the lowest rank, below an earl and a thane; a freeman; also (more generally), a person without royal or noble status; a commoner. / A bondman or serf.

The churl refused to help his neighbors.

意味（1）

A free peasant (as opposed to a serf) of the lowest rank, below an earl and a thane; a freeman; also (more generally), a person without royal or noble status; a commoner.

[F]rom this time forvvard I do pardon before God all the vvrongs that they haue done, or ſhall doe vnto me, vvhether they vvere, be, or ſhall be done by high or lovv perſon, rich or poore, Gentleman or Churle, vvithout excepting any ſtate or condition.

意味（2）

A bondman or serf.

意味（3）

(derogatory) A rough, surly, ill-bred person; a boor.

[A] churles curtesie rathely comes but either for gaine, or falshood.

意味（4）

(archaic) A countryman, a peasant, a rustic.

And, as the mazy web she whirls, / She sees the surly village-churls, / And the red cloaks of market-girls, / Pass onward from Shalott.

意味（5）

(archaic) A person who is stingy, especially with money; a selfish miser, a niggard.

Juli[et]. […] VVhats heere? a cup in my true loues hand? / Poiſon I ſee hath bin his timeleſſe end: / O churle [referring to Romeo], drunke all, and left no friendly drop.

意味（6）

(Theodism) A freedman, ranked below a thane but above a thrall.