proller

English

Etymology

proll +‎ -er

Noun

proller (plural prollers)

1. (obsolete) A prowler; a thief.
   • 1614–1615, Homer, “The Eleventh Book of Homer’s Odysseys”, in Geo[rge] Chapman, transl., Homer’s Odysses. […], London: […] Rich[ard] Field [and William Jaggard], for Nathaniell Butter, published 1615, →OCLC; republished in The Odysseys of Homer, […], volume I, London: John Russell Smith, […], 1857, →OCLC:

     There is argued in your sight
     A worth that works not men for benefit,
     Like prollers or impostors; of which crew,
     The gentle black earth feeds not up a few

     The spelling has been modernized.

References

• “proller”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• preroll