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 form of carol..
- 1766 April, “Day: A Pastoral. From Cunningham’s Poems. [Evening.]”, in The London Magazine. Or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer, volume XXXV, London: Printed for R. Baldwin at the Rose, in Pater-noster Row, →OCLC, 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, 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.
Etymology 2
See carrel.
References
- “carrol”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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