knightship

English

Etymology 1

From knight +‎ -ship.

Noun

knightship (plural knightships)

1. The honor bestowed that makes someone a knight.
   • 1864-1865, Anthony Trollope, Can You Forgive Her?‎^[1]:

     No selection from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of ever so learned or royal a society, no knightship,--not though it be of the Garter,--confers so fair an honour.

2. Honorific formal address to a knighted person. Usually used with the relevant possessive pronoun.
   • 1899, S. R. Crockett, The Black Douglas‎^[2]:

     Fare your knightship well.

Synonyms

• Sense 1. knighthood

Etymology 2

knight +‎ ship

Noun

knightship (plural knightships)

1. (cellular automata) A spaceship, in a cellular automaton, which moves knightwise (i.e., moving two spaces along the x-axis for every space it moves along the y-axis [or vice versa], in the manner of a chess knight); a spaceship which moves with slope 2; a (2,1) spaceship.

Hypernyms

• oblique spaceship

Coordinate terms

• camelship ((3,1) spaceship)
• zebraship ((3,2) spaceship)
• giraffeship ((4,1) spaceship)
• antelopeship ((4,3) spaceship)
• ibisship ((5,1) spaceship)
• flamingoship ((6,1) spaceship)