carle

See also: Carle

English

Alternative forms

• carl

Noun

carle (plural carles)

1. (chiefly Scotland) peasant; fellow
   • 1816, Jedadiah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter I, in Tales of My Landlord, […], volume III (Old Mortality), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for William Blackwood, […]; London: John Murray, […], →OCLC, page 9:

     Eh, Mr Henry! but the carle gae him a screed o' doctrine! Ye might hae heard him a mile down the wind—He routed like a cow in a fremd loaning.

   • 1820, Lord Byron, “Marino Faliero”, in The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4‎:

     Had he instead of on the Doge's throne Stamped the same brand upon a peasant's stool, His blood had gilt the threshold; for the carle Had stabbed him on the instant.

   • 1885, Charles Kingsley, Daily Thoughts‎:

     Ye may fancy I'm talking like a sour, disappointed auld carle.

   • 1913, William Morris, The Story of the Glittering Plain‎:

     Spake the sad and sorry carle: "We seek the Land where the days are many: so many that he who hath forgotten how to laugh, may learn the craft again, and forget the days of Sorrow."

   • 1567, Arthur Golding; Ovid's Metamorphoses; Bk. 1 lines 622-3

     I am no sheephearde with a Curre, attending on the flockes:

     I am no Carle nor countrie Clowne, nor neathearde taking charge

Anagrams

• 'clare, Clare, Clear, Caler, Carel, recal, clear, lacer