Thane is valid Scrabble Word

Is thane a scrabble word?
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5 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
8 points in WWF

Definitions for THANE in dictionary:

NOUN:

a freeman granted land in return for military service; a Scottish feudal lord, also THEGN
(in Anglo-Saxon England) a man who held land granted by the king or by a military nobleman, ranking between an ordinary freeman and a hereditary noble.
Anglo-Saxon or medieval Scottish nobleman
A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king\'s thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place.
a feudal lord or baron
a man ranking above an ordinary freeman and below a noble in Anglo-Saxon England (especially one who gave military service in exchange for land)
(in Scotland) a man, often the chief of a clan, who held land from a Scottish king and ranked with an earl's son

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

a man holding land by military service in Anglo-Saxon England

Words related to THANE

thanedom14 thanedoms15 thanehood16 thanes9 thaneship17 thegn9 thein8

How to use THANE in a sentence

We know of no title which raised any one to the rank of thane, except noble birth and the possession of land.
When the Thane of Glammis returned from his morning ride, he was surprised to find both sides of the gateway accommodated each with a prisoner.
The Thane has sent Grinkel on, and he has ridden in over-much haste for a wounded man.
Now Osgod the Thane had ridden away to the war with my father, and unless he had returned with Grinkel, Hertha was alone in the house with her old nurse and the farm servants.
But she had been in the house of Osgod the Thane since he himself was a child, and Hertha loved her, and that was enough for me.
We rested at the house of a thane who was well known to us on the first evening, and there my mother heard from Edred all that had befallen.
He is like what the good thane was in the old days.
So I knew well that Thoralf found an English home and wife when Olaf Tryggvesson was first in England, and that he was Thane of Bures by some right of his lady.
No other thane was in guest quarters there with me, and I and my men had the place to ourselves.
And as we went Relf talked of Eldred, the Thane of Dallington, and the wedding that was to come.

Thorkel, my foster brother, is to be Earl of East Anglia, and you shall be Thane of Bures as ever.
Therefore in this service of the king, this attendance on himself, and this estate to support both, the dignity of a thane consisted.
The other portion of his estate he either gave for life or lives to his followers, men of a liberal condition, who served the greater thane, as he himself served the king.
A thane was a sort of chieftain in the Saxon state.
Thane after thane is ruthlessly carried off and devoured, while no one is found strong enough and bold enough to cope with the monster.
Your face, my thane, is as a book, where men May read strange matters.
But if there be any thane who on his boc-land has a church at which there is a burial-place, let him give the third part of his own tithe to his church.
I remember three voyages made the merchant a Thane in ancient England.
Witlaf the thane was right when he said that men would draw to the place if we prospered, and it was not so long before the name that had been a jest at first was so no longer.
Then I saw Griffin, the Welsh thane, and I did not like the looks of him at all.
I had rather that the thane was my friend than my foe, for he would be no open enemy.
No light matter was that either, for to set a thane in too low a place for his rank was likely to be a cause of strife and complaint.
Bright looked Goldberga in her blue dress, with wondrous jewels on arm and neck, and maybe the brighter for the absence of the Welsh thane, as I thought.
And she knew also, though maybe she would not own it, that if this Curan had been but a thane of little estate, she could have had naught to say against the matter.
I have heard say that it is the custom here that a man who has crossed the seas in his own ship so many times is a thane by right of that hardihood.
Then there is the jealousy of every other thane, if she chooses an East Anglian.
Even the greatest thane will be content to follow a man who is a warrior of warriors.
No poor man was Berthun after years of service in the palace, where gifts from thane and lady are always ready for the man who has had the care of them.
And the end is that the thane rides towards Grimsby first of all, with twenty men at his heels, knowing more than we thought.
I owned my own ship, and was thane by right therefore, according to the old laws.
To Wiglaf, his young thane and kinsman, he gave it.
Frithiof also came, for the thane Thorsten Vikingsson desired to see him, that he too might bless his son when King Bele blessed the royal princes.
Thus Frithiof, though only the son of a thane, had treasures that might have been coveted by kings and princes.
De Chadwycke suggested a submissive application to the Thane, with a pledge that all possible diligence should be used for the fulfilment of his demands.
Then let one of warriors a dart from his hands, Fly from his fist, that forth it went 150 Through that noble thane of AEthelred.

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