Definition of "carl"

carl¹

/kɑːl/

noun
plural carls
1. A rude, rustic man; a churl.
  Quotations
  In Lent noblemen and carls alike had got into the traces and pulled the carts of stone themselves.
  1974, Guy Davenport, Tatlin!
2. (Scotland, obsolete) A stingy person; a niggard.

carl²

verb
third-person singular simple present carls, present participle carling, simple past and past participle carled
1. (obsolete, intransitive) To snarl; to talk grumpily or gruffly.
  Quotations
  […] full of ache, sorrow, and grief, children again, dizzards, they carle many times as they sit, and talk to themselves, they are angry, waspish, displeased with everything […]
  1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps