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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete spelling of troll.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun See troll.

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  • verb Archaic form of troll. (entice fish with bait)

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Examples

  • November 9, 2008 at 12:16 pm yesh, u b besht Cween an eggsellent roal moddle 2 awl, eben 2 ebil trowl hu not unnerstan cheezlan. an yur carma, iz shynee brite, liek prittee-est ting n da Ty Booteek. maebee u can haz kristil chymez wif kitteh-shayped raynboaz an a choklit duquiri 2 drynk wile da lites dans arown u!

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  • I watched her doing her make-up the other morning and it was like seeing a child trowl stodgy creosote onto their visage just to irk mummy while she flirts with step-daddy number seven.

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  • At the opening of every club night he is called in to sing his "Confession of Faith," which is the famous old drinking trowl from "Gammer Gurton's Needle."

    The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon Washington Irving 1821

  • "Come, Gaffer, strike up a merry trowl," said a thin, squeaking voice, from a personage almost hidden behind a copious supper of broken meat and pastry.

    Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 1 (of 2) John Roby 1821

  • At the opening of every club night he is called in to sing his "Confession of Faith," which is the famous old drinking trowl from "Gammer Gurton's Needle."

    Little Britain Washington Irving 1821

  • Squire had in making the general comprehend, that though a jovial song of the present day was but a foolish sound in the ears of wisdom, and beneath the notice of a learned man, yet a trowl, written by a tosspot several hundred years since, was a matter worthy of the gravest research, and enough to set whole colleges by the ears.

    Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists Washington Irving 1821

  • i seam 2 hav a ‘burger-biter’ trowl ore too followin mii dese daze…

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  • It would not be easy to describe the odd look of surprise and perplexity of the parson at this proposal; or the difficulty the squire had in making the general comprehend, that though a jovial song of the present day was but a foolish sound in the ears of wisdom, and beneath the notice of a learned man, yet a trowl written by a tosspot several hundred years since was a matter worthy of the gravest research, and enough to set whole colleges by the ears.

    Bracebridge Hall Washington Irving 1821

  • In fact the anchorite and his guest were performing, at the full extent of their very powerful lungs, an old drinking song, of which this was the burden: — “Come, trowl the brown bowl to me,

    Ivanhoe 2004

  • I was wont to trowl down the ninepins in the skittle-ground — and then you said I should bring you such news out of the ordinary as should make us all, when used as you knew how to use it — and now you see what is to come of it all!”

    The Fortunes of Nigel 2004

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