CARL

Etymology 1

Proper noun

Carl (plural Carls)

A male given name from Germanic languages, equivalent to Charles.

Etymology 2

Shortening.

Noun

Carl (plural Carls)

(informal) A student at Carleton College, Minnesota.

Anagrams

• ACLR, CRLA

Etymology 1

Noun

carl (plural carls)

A rude, rustic man; a churl.

(Scotland, obsolete) A stingy person; a niggard.

Etymology 2

Verb

carl (third-person singular simple present carls, present participle carling, simple past and past participle carled)

(obsolete, intransitive) To snarl; to talk grumpily or gruffly.

Anagrams

• ACLR, CRLA

Source: Wiktionary

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Carl, n. Etym: [Icel, karl a male, a man; akin to AS. ceorl, OHG. charal, G. kerl fellow. See Churl.] [Written also carle.]

1. A rude, rustic man; a churl. The miller was a stout carl. Chaucer.

2. Large stalks of hemp which bear the seed; -- called also carl hemp.

3. pl.

Definition: A kind of food. See citation, below. Caring or carl are gray steeped in water and fried the next day in butter or fat. They are eaten on the second Sunday before Easter, formerly called Carl Sunday. Robinson's Whitby Glossary (1875).

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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