Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ceorl \Ceorl\ (k[e^][^o]rl or ch[~e]rl), n. [AS. See {Churl},
   n.] (O. Eng. Hist.)
   A freeman of the lowest class; one not a thane or of the
   servile classes; a churl.