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Webster 1913 Edition


Prowler

Prowl′er

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Noun.
One that prowls.
Thomson.

Webster 1828 Edition


Prowler

PROWL'ER

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Noun.
One that roves about for prey.

Definition 2024


prowler

prowler

English

Noun

prowler (plural prowlers)

  1. One who roves about for prey; one who prowls.
    • 1922, Michael Arlen, chapter 1/1/2, in Piracy: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
      House Prees and Bloods [] were everywhere to be seen in earnest colloquy. For the matter was, that there was some sort of night-prowler about the school grounds.

References

  • prowler in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913