carline

plural carlines · alternative carlin · alternative carling

1. ScotlandA woman; also, a hag or witch.

   He taks a ſvvirlie, auld moſs-oak, / For ſome black, grouſome Carlin; […]

   1785 (date written), Robert Burns, “Halloween”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], and William Creech, […], published 1793, →OCLC, stanza XXIII, page 189

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   While honest men slept in their beds, the auld rudas carlines took their pleasure.

   1902 January, John Buchan, “The Outgoing of the Tide”, in The Watcher by the Threshold, and Other Tales, Edinburgh; London: William Blackwood and Sons, published 1902, →OCLC, page 232

   Synonyms: old woman, babushka, bag, bat, beldame, biddy, bluehair, bubbe

plural carlines

1. A line of automobiles awaiting access to the same building or similar location.

plural carlines

1. Carline thistle (Carlina spp.).

plural carlines

1. alternativeAlternative form of caroline (“an old silver Italian coin”).

plural carlines

1. alternativenauticalAlternative form of carling (“deck planking”).

1. A female given name, variant of Caroline.

   A blur of motion passed him, and he turned to find Carline standing in the room, a heavy cloak wrapped around her.

   1982, Raymond Feist, Magician, page 88

plural Carlines

1. A surname.