Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Coarse; harsh; strong; firm; bold.
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Examples
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Then niest outspak a raucle carlin, [next, rough beldam]
Robert Burns How To Know Him William Allan Neilson 1907
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Sweet "raucle carlin," she has none of the sentimentality of the English highwayman's lady; but being wooed by a tinker and
George Cruikshank William Makepeace Thackeray 1837
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Sweet “raucle carlin,” she has none of the sentimentality of the English highwayman’s lady; but being wooed by a tinker and
George Cruikshank 2006
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