† carrown.
Obsolete.
(See quots.)
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1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande viii. f. 28/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I A brotherhood of Karrowes, that profer to play at chartes all ye yere long.
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 53 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) There is another..much more lewde and dishonest, and that is, of their Carrows, which is a kinde of people that wander up and downe to Gentle-mens houses, living onely upon Cardes and Dice.
1829 W. Scott Antiquary (new ed.) Introd. p. xv In the character of the Irish itinerant gambler, called in that country a carrow.
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