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English
Etymology
From Irish cearrbhach; compare Scottish Gaelic cearrach, from ceàrrbhag (“the left hand”), from ceàrr (“left”).
Pronunciation
Noun
carrow (plural carrows)
- (obsolete) A gambler in Ireland.
1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund Spenser, A Vewe of the Present State of Irelande , Dublin: Societie of Stationers, , →OCLC; republished as A View of the State of Ireland (Ancient Irish Histories), Dublin: Society of Stationers, Hibernia Press, y John Morrison, 1809, →OCLC:Did you blame me even now for wishing of Kern Horse-Boys and Carrows to be clean cut off , as too violent a means; and do you yourself now prescribe the same Medicine?
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