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> as lemmascurtal friar curtal friar n. apparently a friar with a short frock; cf. quot. 1575 at sense A. 3b.Applied in ballads to the friar (Tuck) who plays a part in some Robin Hood stories, called also ‘cutted friar’. Hence, as a vague archaism, in Scott. [The conjecture that curtal here means curtilanus, as ‘having the care and keeping of the curtile or vegetable garden’, is inadmissible.]< |