carroll (plural carrolls)

1. (archaic) Alternative spelling of carol
   • c. 1595–1596, William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), [London]: Printed by Iames Roberts, published 1600, OCLC 35186948 ↗, [Act II, scene i] ↗:

     The humane mortals want their winter heere / No night is now with hymme or carroll bleſt; / Therefore the Moone (the gouerneſſe of floods) / Pale in her anger, waſhes all the aire; / That Rheumaticke diſeaſes do abound.

carroll (carrolls, present participle carrolling; past and past participle carrolled)

1. (archaic) Alternative form of carol.
   • 1579, Immeritô [pseudonym; Edmund Spenser], “October. Aegloga Decima.”, in The Shepheardes Calender: […], London: Printed by Hugh Singleton, […], OCLC 606515406 ↗; republished as The Shepheardes Calender, […], imprinted at London: By Iohn Wolfe for Iohn Harrison the yonger, […], 1586, OCLC 837880809 ↗, folio 41, recto ↗:

     And when the ſtubborne ſtroke of ſtronger ſtounds, / Has ſomewhat ſlackt the tenor of thy ſtring; / Of loue and luſtihead tho maiſt thou ſing, / And carroll lowde, and leade the Millers rounde, [...]

   • 1634 October 9 (first performance)​, [John Milton], H[enry] Lawes, editor, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: Printed [by Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, OCLC 228715864 ↗; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, OCLC 1113942837 ↗, lines 842–851, page 29 ↗:

     [S]till ſhe [Sabrina, a water nymph] retaines / Her maiden gentleneſſe, and oft at eve / Viſits the herds#English|heards along the twilight meadows, / Helping all urchin blaſts, and ill lucke ſignes, / That the ſhrewd medling elfe delights to make, / Which ſhe with precious vialed#English|viol'd liquors heales; / For which the ſhepheards at their feſtivalls / Carroll her goodneſſe lowd in ruſticke layes, / And throw ſweet garland wreaths into her ſtreame / Of pancies, pinks, and gaudie daffadills.

1. Surname derived from the Irish Ó Cearbhaill.
2. Lewis Carroll - pseudonym of British author Charles Lutwidge Dodgson.
3. A male given name.
4. A female given name.
5. A city/county seat in Carroll County, Iowa.

• Carrol

carroll (plural carrolls)

1. An early ripening apple cultivar