Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
prowl .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb obsolete To prowl about; to rob.
- transitive verb obsolete To search or prowl after; to rob; to plunder.
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April 14, 2008 at 2:23 pm tiems bin hard since teh cheezburger proha……proll……..probi……..ban.
U must know passwurd - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Withals.] [Footnote 49: A.S. _ætwítan_, twit; _oðwítan_, blame.] [Footnote 50: ‘prowl, proll, to seek for prey, from Fr. _proie_ by the addition of a formative _l_, as kneel from knee.’
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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