proll

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English

Etymology

See prowl.

Verb

proll (third-person singular simple present prolls, present participle prolling, simple past and past participle prolled)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To prowl or search after; to plunder, to rob.
    • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “September. Ægloga Nona.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: , London: Hugh Singleton, , →OCLC:
      They walke not widely as they were wont, / For feare of raungers and the great hunt, / But prively prolling to and froe
    • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “ that the Bishops of Rome (According to God’s Institution and by Original Right Derived thence) should have an Universal Supremacy and Jurisdiction over the Christian Church]”, in J[ohn] Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. , London: Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, , published 1680, →OCLC, page 271:
      VVhereas VVealth is a great ſinevv of Povver, he did invent divers vvays of dravving great ſtore thereof to himſelf. By hovv many tricks did he proll money from all parts of Chriſtendom?
    • 1795?, Henry Stebbing
      the image of a fierce and ravenous beast, prolling up and down for his prey

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