Word Meanings - CARROW - Book Publishers vocabulary database

A strolling gamester. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to CARROW)

• STROLL
  To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove. These mothers stroll to beg sustenance for their helpless infants. Swift. Syn. -- To rove; roam; range; stray. (more info) dial. Sw. strykel one who strolls about, Icel. strj to stroke, D.
• GAMESTER
  1. A merry, frolicsome person. Shak. 2. A person who plays at games; esp., one accustomed to play for a stake; a gambler; one skilled in games. When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shak. 3.
• SPENSERIAN
  Of or pertaining to the English poet Spenser; -- specifically applied to the stanza used in his poem "The Faërie Queene."
• STROLLER
  One who strolls; a vagrant.
• DISPENSER
  One who, or that which, dispenses; a distributer; as, a dispenser of favors.