carl

noun

1. A rude, rustic man; a churl.

   “In Lent noblemen and carls alike had got into the traces and pulled the carts of stone themselves.”

2. (Scotland, obsolete)A stingy person; a niggard.
3. (informal)A student at Carleton College, Minnesota.

   “Located in rural Minnesota, Carleton is not surrounded by any cultural diversity unless you count pig farms and cow farms as separately diverse institutions. The nice thing about Carleton is that Carls are pretty much non-judgmental […]”

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete)To snarl; to talk grumpily or gruffly.

   “[…] 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 […]”

name

1. A male given name from the Germanic languages, equivalent to English Charles.

   “Of course you know that Carl Duruside, or 'Doctor Carl', as he is always called by almost anybody, is my husband's brother?”

   “And Thomas Carlyle is nine. They call him Carl, and he has a regular mania for collecting toads and bugs and frogs and bringing them into the house.”

   “I'd weave through the throng — scanning for empties to return while flirting, sniffing out kids smoking grass and sharing smokes with Ivor and Carl on the door. With a name like Carl you can imagine a six-foot tall and wide bouncer, but Ivor...”

   “Indeed, some have seen echoes of the work of the Nazis’ “crown jurist” and political theorist, Carl Schmitt, in the Trump administration’s domestic policies, particularly his doctrine of “the exception”, which can be used to suspend certain constitutional rights.”