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proll

Verb CEFR B1

Definitions

To prowl or search after; to plunder, to rob.

intransitive, obsolete

Examples

“They walke not widely as they were wont, / For feare of raungers and the great hunt, / But prively prolling to and froe”
“VVhereas VVealth is a great ſinevv of Povver, he did invent⟳ divers vvays of dravving great ſtore thereof to himſelf. By hovv many tricks did he proll money from all parts of Chriſtendom?”
“1795?, Henry Stebbing […] the image of a fierce and ravenous beast, prolling up and down for his prey […]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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See also

prolled prolling prolls prolog prologed prologing

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