carl

¹ American  

[kahrl] / kɑrl /

Or carle

noun

1. Scot.

   1. a strong, robust fellow, especially a strong manual laborer.

   2. a miser; an extremely thrifty person.

2. Archaic. a churl.

3. Obsolete. a bondman.

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Carl ² American  

[kahrl] / kɑrl /

noun

1. a male given name, form of Charles.

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carl British  

/ kɑːl /

noun

1. archaic another word for churl

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Other Word Forms

• carlish adjective
• carlishness noun

Etymology

Origin of carl

before 1000 (in compounds; housecarl ); Middle English; Old English -carl < Old Norse karl man; cognate with Old High German karl; akin to churl

Example Sentences

Professor Lisa Kaltenegger, director of the Carl Sagan Institute at Cornell University, led the research alongside a team of undergraduate students.

From Science Daily

"Hellerstein possesses a well-deserved reputation for seeking to do justice in every case and for being independent and fair-minded," said law professor Carl Tobias of the University of Richmond.

From Barron's

She recounts how they had gone to the home of Holm's boyfriend, a man called Carl Cooper, and found him in the act of selling her clothes.

From BBC

If war is the continuation of politics by other means, as the military theorist Carl von Clausewitz famously claimed, then a war’s success must be judged by the achievement of its political goals.

From The Wall Street Journal

Carl Davis, a research director for the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, said the idea is picking up momentum nationwide, with states like Maryland, Minnesota and New Hampshire also considering a repeal in recent years, due to a growing awareness about profit shifting — a loophole in the water’s edge tax break that some corporations use to reduce their tax burdens by shifting profits made in a high-tax country into tax havens.

From Los Angeles Times