- intransitive, obsoleteTo prowl or search after; to plunder, to rob.
“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 […]”
Formsprolls(present, singular, third-person) · prolling(participle, present) · prolled(participle, past) · prolled(past)