A rustic; a countryman or laborer. "A peasant or churl." Spenser. Your rank is all reversed; let men of cloth Bow to the stalwart churls in overalls. Emerson.
A rough, surly, ill-bred man; a boor. A churl's courtesy rarely comes, but either for gain or falsehood. Sir P. Sidney.
A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard. Like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf. Drayton.
Churlish; rough; selfish. [Obs.] Ford.
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