crowl
Americannoun
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Dialect. an unusually small, ill, or frail animal, particularly the smallest of a litter or brood.
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Dialect, Disparaging. a very small person; runt.
Example Sentences
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O well ken I that he was a great fighter and Covenant man, and did ten times greater things than I, an ill-grown crowl, can ever lay my name to.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
And there, at the back of one of the great trees, was where we had fought because he had called me "puny crowl."
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
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