earle

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English[edit]

Noun[edit]

earle (plural earles)

  1. Archaic spelling of earl.

Anagrams[edit]

Yola[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From Middle English erl, from Old English eorl, from Proto-West Germanic *erl.

Noun[edit]

earle

  1. earl
    • 1867, “Prologue”, in CONGRATULATORY ADDRESS IN THE DIALECT OF FORTH AND BARGY, page 114:
      To's Excellencie Constantine Harrie Phipps, y' Earle Mulgrave, Lord Lieutenant-General and General Governor of Ireland.
      To his Excellency, Constantine Henry Phipps, Earl Mulgrave, Lord Lieutenant-General, and Gereral Governor of Ireland.

References[edit]

  • Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 114