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One of Arthur's knights
Answer for the clue "One of Arthur's knights ", 8 letters:
lancelot
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Word definitions for lancelot in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
masc. proper name, Old French, a double-diminutive of Frankish Lanzo , a hypocoristic name formed from some one of the Germanic names in Land- ; compare Old English Landbeorht "land-bright," in Old French Lambert .
Usage examples of lancelot.
The right human operator was only half of Lancelot, and to develop the other half had been the work of decades even for mighty Earth.
He had been on Moonbase just a little longer than one standard day, and this was the second time he had put on Lancelot, and now he was wearing it as his only protection as he rode a large platform elevator up to the airless, frozen night-side surface.
They had told him that Lancelot would provide him with all the air he needed, all the oxygen, to be exact, and he had no real doubt that they were right.
Michel still felt perfectly comfortable as, with dropping pressure, the furled stuff of Lancelot around him crackled a little, a sound suggesting stiff paper wings.
The dazzle was all in short wavelengths of radiation that only Lancelot allowed his eyes to see.
When Michel himself moved, he could hear Lancelot faintly crackling, weak spasms across the audio spectrum.
Below, while Michel was being robed in a tight-fitting gym suit of bright orange and then in Lancelot, they had discussed briefly what was to be tried today, simple free flight in space.
Michel knew another momentary dazzle before Lancelot scaled down the radiation impinging from the sources directly into his eyes.
He never doubted that in Lancelot he would be enabled to move as he had never moved before.
Gray, tenuous-looking limbs extending themselves from his Lancelot, Frank grappled with his prey.
He could feel that his commands to Lancelot were fumbling, groping things, only beginning to find out their true paths.
Then, this time carefully tamping momentum back into the reservoirs where Lancelot could hold it stored, Michel dropped back onto the basalt surface.
For the first time since his first takeoff Michel was not in complete control of what his Lancelot was doing.
Michel had been wearing Lancelot he might have found some amusement in trying to sort out the several sets of what he had learned were called harmonics.
Maybe it is theoretically possible for Lancelot to draw that kind of power.