Carroll

[kar-uh l]

noun

Charles,1737–1832, American patriot and legislator.
Lewis, pen name of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
Also Car·rol. a male or female given name.

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Contemporary Examples of carroll

Carroll noted that the vehicle had a Pennsylvania plate, DJV5220, registered to Michael and Deborah Frein.
Manhunt for a Cop-Hating Pennsylvania ‘Survivalist’
Michael Daly
September 17, 2014
Carroll is one of the members of the legislative committee investigating Christie.
Dems Troll Christie on Bridgegate
Olivia Nuzzi
September 7, 2014
Carroll was kinder, shrugging that “you can only take a person at his word.”
Chris Christie’s Faking It on Gun Rights
Olivia Nuzzi
July 10, 2014
“I think it will add to the appeal for a lot of women,” Carroll said.
Why Women Don’t Vote for Women
Patricia Murphy
April 8, 2014
Carroll added that the exception is moderate Republican women who have a track record with policies to advance women.
Why Women Don’t Vote for Women
Patricia Murphy
April 8, 2014

Historical Examples of carroll

You were all that a young Englishman of good family and fortune should be; and so, Sir Carroll——'
Against Odds
Lawrence L. Lynch
There was not much doubt as to what Mrs. Carroll was wondering.
The Carroll Girls
Mabel Quiller-Couch
The bedrooms, all but Mr. and Mrs. Carroll's, were very tiny.
The Carroll Girls
Mabel Quiller-Couch
Mr. Carroll was only too happy to be able to do something in return.
The Carroll Girls
Mabel Quiller-Couch
"Got to do it," he said, in answer to Carroll's reproachful look.
An American Suffragette
Isaac N. Stevens

British Dictionary definitions for carroll

Carroll

noun

Lewis. real name the Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. 1832–98, English writer; an Oxford mathematics don who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass (1872) and the nonsense poem The Hunting of the Snark (1876)

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carroll in Medicine

Carroll

[kăr′əl]James 1854-1907

British-born American physician noted for his research on yellow fever. In 1900 he deliberately infected himself with the disease for experimental purposes.

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