Obs. [f. CHURL sb.]

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  1.  intr. To take a husband; cf. to wive.

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a. 1000.  in Thorpe, Laws, II. 346. 19 (Bosw.). Ðær man eft wifaþ, oððe wif eft ceorlaþ.

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c. 1000.  Ags. Gosp., Matt. xxii. 30. Hiʓ ne ceorliað [Hatton cheorliaþ] on þam æriste.

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  2.  trans. To play the churl or niggard towards (a person), to begrudge. Cf. CHURL sb. 6.

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1696.  Aubrey, Misc. (1857), 182. You need not, says he, churle me in a piece of meat.

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  3.  intr. To grumble at like a churl.

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1626.  W. Sclater, Expos. 2 Thess. (1629), 4. Murmure, and little lesse then churle at him, if in the least sort hee afflict vs. Ibid., 209. Churling at Gods hand in our afflictions.

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  Churl, Sc. variant of CHIRL v.

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