545. _carl_, fellow; Icel. _karl_, cognate with A. S. _ceorl_, a churl. See A. 3469; also A. 1423-4. This description of the Miller should be compared with that in A. 3925-3940. [48] 547. 'That well proved (to be true); for everywhere, where he came.' 548. _the ram._ This was the usual prize at wrestling-matches. Tyrwhitt says--'Matthew Paris mentions a wrestling match at Westminster, A. D. 1222, at which a ram was the prize.' Cf. Sir Topas, B. 1931; Tale of Gamelyn, 172, 280. 549. _a thikke knarre_, a thickly knotted (fellow), i. e. a muscular fellow. Cf. M. E. _knor_, Mid. Du. _knorre_, a knot in wood; and E. _gnarled_. It is worth notice that, in ll. 549-557, there is no word of French origin, except _tuft_. 550. _of harre_, off its hinges, lit. hinge. 'I horle at the notes, and heve hem al of herre'; Poem on Singing, in Reliq. Antiquae, ii. 292. Gower has _out of herre_, off its hinges, out of use, out of joint; Conf. Amant. bk. ii. ed. Pauli, i. 259; bk. iii. i. 318. Skelton has:--'All is out of harre,' Magnificence, l. 921. From A.S. _heorr_, a hinge. 553. Todd cites from Lilly's _Midas_--'How, sir, will you be trimmed? Will you have a beard like a _spade_ or a bodkin?'--Illust. of Gower, p. 258. 554. _cop_, top; A. S. _copp_, a top; cf. G. _Kopf_. 557. _nose-thirles_, lit. nose-holes; mod. E. _nostrils_. 559. _forneys._ 'Why, asks Mr. Earle, should Chaucer so readily fall on the simile of a _furnace_? What, in the uses of the time, made it come so ready to hand? The weald of Kent was then, like our "black country" now, a great smelting district, its wood answering to our coal; and Chaucer was Knight of the Shire, or M.P. for Kent.'--Temporary Preface to the Six-text edition of Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, p. 99. 560. _Ianglere_, loud talker.