He taks a ſvvirlie, auld moſs-oak, / For ſome black, grouſome Carlin; […] 1785 (date written), Robert Burns, “Halloween”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] T[homas] Cadell, […], and William Creech, […], published 1793, →OCLC, stanza XXIII, page 189:
The bedrid carlins, too, and orphan brats, / Come all on me, through his petitioning; […] 1836, Joanna Baillie, The Phantom, Act I:
(alt-of, alternative) Alternative form of carling.