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proll

proll verb: to prowl or search after; to plunder, to rob.

Verb

proll (third-person singular simple present prolls, present participle prolling, simple past and past participle prolled)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To prowl or search after; to plunder, to rob.
    • They walke not widely as they were wont, / For feare of raungers and the great hunt, / But prively prolling to and froe1579, 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...

Forms of proll

third-person singular presentprolls
present participleprolling
past participleprolled
pastprolled

Origin of proll

See prowl.

Words formed from proll

Questions about proll

What does proll mean?
Proll means to prowl or search after; to plunder, to rob.
What part of speech is proll?
Proll is a verb.
What is the past tense of proll?
The past tense of proll is prolled.

Words near proll in the dictionary

  1. prolixious
  2. prolixities
  3. prolixity
  4. prolixly
  5. prolixness
  6. proll
  7. prolled
  8. proller
  9. prollers
  10. prolling
  11. prolls

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