proll

See also: Proll

English

Etymology

See prowl.

Verb

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

  1. (obsolete) To search or prowl after; to rob; to plunder.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Barrow to this entry?)
    • 1795?, Henry Stebbing
      […] the image of a fierce and ravenous beast, prolling up and down for his prey […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for proll in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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