proll

present singular third person prolls · participle present prolling · participle past prolled · past prolled

1. intransitiveobsoleteTo prowl or search after; to plunder, to rob.

   1795?, Henry Stebbing […] the image of a fierce and ravenous beast, prolling up and down for his prey […]

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   They walke not widely as they were wont, / For feare of raungers and the great hunt, / But prively prolling to and froe

   1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “September. Ægloga Nona.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: […] Hugh Singleton, […], →OCLC

   VVhereas VVealth is a great ſinevv of Povver, he did invent divers vvays of dravving great ſtore thereof to himſelf. By hovv many tricks did he proll money from all parts of Chriſtendom?

   a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “[The V. [Supposition] that the Bishops of Rome (According to God’s Institution and by Original Right Derived thence) should have an Universal Supremacy and Jurisdiction over the Christian Church]”, in J[ohn] Tillotson, editor, A Treatise of the Pope’s Supremacy. […], London: […] Miles Flesher, for Brabazon Aylmer, […], published 1680, →OCLC, page 271