Noun

(en noun)

(chiefly, Scotland) peasant; fellow

* {{quote-book, year=1820, author=Lord Byron, title=The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4, chapter=Marino Faliero, edition= citation

, passage=Had he instead of on the Doge's throne Stamped the same brand upon a peasant's stool, His blood had gilt the threshold; for the carle Had stabbed him on the instant. }}

* {{quote-book, year=1885, author=Charles Kingsley, title=Daily Thoughts, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Ye may fancy I'm talking like a sour, disappointed auld carle . }}

* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=William Morris, title=The Story of the Glittering Plain, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Spake the sad and sorry carle : "We seek the Land where the days are many: so many that he who hath forgotten how to laugh, may learn the craft again, and forget the days of Sorrow." }}

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete except in dialects) a horse

:* Late 14th century': ‘Herkne, my broþer, herkne, by þy feiþ! / Herestow nat how þat þe cartere seiþ? / Hent it anon, for he haþ yeve it þee,/ Boþe hey and cart, and eek his '''caples þre.’ — Geoffrey Chaucer, ''The Friar's Tale