carrow

A gambler in Ireland.

Noun

  1. A gambler in Ireland.
    • Did you blame me even now for wishing of Kern Horse-Boys and Carrows to be clean cut off , as too violent a means; and do you yourself now prescribe the same Medicine? - 1596 (date written; published 1633), Edmund...

Origin

From Irish cearrbhach; compare Scottish Gaelic cearrach, from ceàrrbhag (“the left hand”), from ceàrr (“left”).

Forms

carrows