patroler

plural patrolers

1. archaicArchaic form of patroller.

   And be it further enacted, That every patroler shall be entitled to receive one dollar, for every night, or twelve hours, he shall be employed a pine as a patroler;

   1807, Harry Toulmin, The Statutes of the Mississippi Territory, Revised and Digested, Samuel Terrell, printer to the Mississippi Territory, →OCLC, page 71

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   The scrawny patroler of Hall Township was called “Cracklin’ Jack” Parker, and the large muscular fellow of the Bear Garden area near Sarem in Reynoldson Township, “Bear Garden Jack” Parker.

   1965, Frank Roy Johnson, Tales from Old Carolina: Traditional and Historical Sketches of the Area Between and about the Chowan River and Great Dismal Swamps, Murfreesboro, North Carolina: Johnson Publishing Company, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 88, →ISBN

1. misspellingMisspelling of patroller.

   A one-man patrol was marching down the dirt road through the woods and shrubs. The patroler held his torch high and Viriathus spotted him from a safe distance.

   2016, Gusme Bonomi, Otis: True Sea Monsters, Lulu Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, →ISBN