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Webster 1913 Edition
Carl
Carl
,Noun.
[Written also
carle
.] 1.
A rude, rustic man; a churl.
The miller was a stout
carl
. Chaucer.
2.
Large stalks of hemp which bear the seed; – called also
carl hemp
. 3.
pl.
A kind of food. See citation, below.
Caring or
carl
are gray steeped in water and fried the next day in butter or fat. They are eaten on the second Sunday before Easter, formerly called Carl
Sunday. Robinson’s Whitby Glossary (1875).