carrol
See also: Carrol
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈkæɹəl/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈkɛɹəl/
- Rhymes: -æɹəl
- Hyphenation: car‧rol
Etymology 1
See carol.
Verb
carrol (third-person singular simple present carrols, present participle (UK) carrolling or (US) carroling, simple past and past participle (UK) carrolled or (US) carroled)
- (archaic) Alternative form of carol.
- 1766 April, The London Magazine. Or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer, volume XXXV, London: Printed for R. Baldwin at the Rose, in Pater-noster Row, OCLC 657101761, page 207, column 2:
- As the lark with vary'd tune, / Carrols to the evening loud; / Mark the mild reſplendent moon, / Breaking through a parted cloud!
- 1774, William Richardson, “Runny Mead”, in Poems, Chiefly Rural, Glasgow: Printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis, printers to the University, OCLC 642399396, page 64:
- […] Ye villagers rejoice; / And ye who cultivate the fertile glebe / Carrol the gladſome ſong. For you the plain / Shall wave with wheaten harveſts; and the gale / From blooming bean-fields ſhall diffuſe perfume.
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Etymology 2
See carrel.
Noun
carrol (plural carrols)
- Alternative form of carrel.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for carrol in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
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