The miller was a stout carl. --Chaucer.
2. Large stalks of hemp which bear the seed; -- called also
{carl hemp}.
3. pl. A kind of food. See citation, below.
Caring or carl are gray steeped in water and fried
the next day in butter or fat. They are eaten on the
second Sunday before Easter, formerly called Carl
Sunday. --Robinson's
Whitby
Glossary
(1875).