carrol

plural carrols

1. archaicArchaic form of carol.

present singular third person carrols · US participle present carroling · UK participle present carrolling · US participle past carroled · US past carroled · UK participle past carrolled · UK past carrolled

1. archaicArchaic form of carol.

   As the lark with vary'd tune, / Carrols to the evening loud; / Mark the mild reſplendent moon, / Breaking through a parted cloud!

   1766 April, “Day: A Pastoral. From Cunningham’s Poems. [Evening.]”, in The London Magazine. Or, Gentleman’s Monthly Intelligencer, volume XXXV, London: Printed for R. Baldwin at the Rose, in Pater-noster Row, →OCLC, page 207, column 2

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   […] Ye villagers rejoice; / And ye who cultivate the fertile glebe / Carrol the gladſome ſong. For you the plain / Shall wave with wheaten harveſts; and the gale / From blooming bean-fields ſhall diffuſe perfume.

   1774, William Richardson, “Runny Mead”, in Poems, Chiefly Rural, Glasgow: Printed by Robert & Andrew Foulis, printers to the University, →OCLC, page 64

plural carrols

1. archaicarchitectureArchaic form of carrel.

plural Carrols

1. A surname from Irish, of less common usage, variant of Carroll, derived from the Irish Ó Cearbhaill.
2. A unisex given name
   1. A male given name transferred from the surname.
   2. A female given name from the Germanic languages, of less common usage, variant of Carol.