Noun: carl
Sample Sentences
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In Lent noblemen and carls alike had got into the traces and pulled the carts of stone themselves. [1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!:]
Nouns inflected like carl
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English carl, from Old English carl, a borrowing from Old Norse karl (“man, husband”), from Proto-Germanic *karilaz. Doublet of ceorl, churl, and karl. See: Middle English Nouns '
carl', Old English Nouns '
carl', Old Norse Nouns '
karl'.