Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A buckler-bearer or servant to a man-at-arms. See cultellarius.
  • noun Same as costrel.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete An armor-bearer to a knight.
  • noun obsolete See costrel.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun A knight's attendant or man-at-arms; a knave.

Etymologies

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From Old French coustillier ("soldier armed with a coustille ("double-edged sword")").

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