[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

churl \churl\, n. as. ceorl a freeman of the lowest rank, man,
   husband; akin to d. karel, kerel, g. kerl, dan.  sw. karl,
   icel. karl, and to the e. proper name charles orig., man,
   male, and perh. to skr. j=ara lover. cf. carl,
   charles's wain.
   1. a rustic; a countryman or laborer. "a peasant or churl."
      --spenser.
      1913 webster

            your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth
            bow to the stalwart churls in overalls. --emerson.
      1913 webster

   2. a rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor.
      1913 webster

            a churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain
            or falsehood.                         --sir p.
                                                  sidney.
      1913 webster

   3. a selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard.
      1913 webster

            like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf.
                                                  --drayton.
      1913 webster
see also:
carl charles's wain 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

churl \churl\, a.
   churlish; rough; selfish. obs. --ford.
   1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

churl
     n 1: a crude uncouth ill-bred person lacking culture or
          refinement syn: peasant, barbarian, boor, goth,
           tyke, tike
     2: a selfish person who is unwilling to give or spend syn: niggard,
         skinflint, scrooge
     3: a bad-tempered person syn: grouch, grump, crank, crosspatch
see also:
peasant barbarian boor goth tyke tike 
niggard skinflint scrooge grouch grump 
crank crosspatch 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

68 moby thesaurus words for "churl":
   babbitt, philistine, silas marner, arriviste, bondmaid, bondman,
   bondslave, bondsman, bondswoman, boor, bounder, bourgeois, cad,
   captive, chattel, chattel slave, clodhopper, clown, concubine,
   curmudgeon, debt slave, epicier, galley slave, groundling,
   guttersnipe, helot, homager, hooligan, ill-bred fellow, liege,
   liege man, liege subject, looby, lout, low fellow, miser, mucker,
   muckworm, niggard, nouveau riche, odalisque, parvenu, peasant,
   penny pincher, peon, pinchfist, pinchgut, ribald, rough, roughneck,
   rowdy, ruffian, save-all, scrooge, serf, servant, skinflint, slave,
   subject, theow, thrall, tightwad, upstart, vassal, villein,
   vulgarian, vulgarist, yokel

[5] : Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary

churl
   in isa. 32:5 r.v. marg., "crafty", means a deceiver. in 1 sam.
   25:3, the word churlish denotes a man that is coarse and
   ill-natured, or, as the word literally means, "hard." the same
   greek word as used by the lxx. here is found in matt. 25:24, and
   there is rendered "hard."
   

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