prole
noun
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Pronunciation: /pɹəʊl/ / /pɹoʊl/
noun
Etymology: From proletariat (“working class”) by shortening.
- A member of the proletariat; a proletarian.
- A pleb (ordinary person).
verb
Etymology: From prowl obsolete pronunciation (/pɹoʊl/), from Middle English prollen.
- To prowl; to proll.
“[…] for he ordained, […] and that boyes and children ſhould have ſo little allowed them to eat, that they ſhould be forced to prole, and ſteal for their better proviſion, to make them thereby the more induſtrious, nimble, and quick of ſpirit, […]”
“But I will not ſuch Journies take, / To dig and prole in vain: / For was I to dig twenty Weeks, / Without might come again.”