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Definition of Proller
1. n. Prowler; thief.
Definition of Proller
1. Noun. (obsolete) A prowler; a thief. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Proller
1. proler [n -S] - See also: proler
Lexicographical Neighbors of Proller
Literary usage of Proller
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Essays by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1876)
"... these delicately emerging stars, with their private and ineffable glances,
signify it and proller it. I am taught the poorness of our invention, ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"1 (Mammon). proller, a prowler, wandering beggar. Chapman, tr. of Odyssey, xi.
490. promont, a headland. Middleton, The Changeling, i. ..."
3. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Samuel Johnson (1810)
"To proller peace, and yet to wage the war ? You, from the foe, your darling son
could shroud, And for a man present a figur'd cloud. ..."
4. The Harleian Miscellany; Or, A Collection of Scarce, Curious, and by William Oldys, John Malham (1810)
"He will proller to maintain them in all their liberties and privileges, and the
free exercise of their religion, in case they willingly submit to him ..."
5. Annual Report by Buffalo (N.Y.). Water Bureau (1875)
"... Hart, Ball & Hart Lab. and material. 45.66 27, Weed & Van Deventer ...
Hardware 4-25 27, Leonard & Ellis Oil 250.00 " 27, John proller Hay 6.24 27, ..."
6. The Metropolitan (1842)
"... this knight to know out of hand, that though truly his proller hath my hearty
thanks, yet neither for love nor gain can I ever assent to wed with him. ..."
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