Definition of "earles" [earles]

• Deposit (on a purchase, etc.) (noun)
• Plural form of earle. (noun)

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• "_ The king of Scots beareth one of the swords before the king of England.] who bare one of the thrée swords before him, going in the middle betwixt two earles, that is to saie, Hamelin earle of Warren going on his right hand, and Ranulfe earle of Chester on his left."
• "Then he shrugged and stormed on, "And earles all arguing for positions that — no matter how they are worded — are meant merely to advance their personal causes.""
• "Stowe, writing in 1590, evidently believes in Robin Hood as an historical personage, for he says, "he suffered no woman to be oppressed ... poor men's goods he spared, abundantly relieving them with that which by theft he got from the abbeys, and the houses of rich old earles.""