also, for noun YARL
for verb, IARLE CLICK HERE FOR KEY TO SOURCES ETYMOLOGY noun: Old Norse (= Old English eorl earl), originally ‘a man of noble birth’; hence used as the title of hereditary Norse and Danish chieftains; later, of the royal liegemen next in rank to the king whom they followed verb: apparently a derivative of jar (vb.) EXAMPLE From: Letters and Memorials of State By Sir Henry Sidney, Sir Philip Sidney, Robert Sidney, Robert Sidney Leicester (Earl of), Philip Sidney Leicester (Earl of), Algernon Sidney Edited By Arthur Collins, Vol. I, 1746
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