parle noun 2verb 1forms 3 noun2 •(no longer used) Parley; talk.Iul[ia]. Of all the faire resort of Gentlemen, / That euery day with par’le encounter me, / In thy opinion which is worthiest loue? — 1590 •(no longer used) A nasty encounter.Hor[atio].[…]So frown’d he once, when in an angry parle / He smot the sledded Pollax on the Ice. — 1599 verb1 •(no longer used) To talk; to converse; to parley.[…]Knute finding himself too weak, began to parle,[…] — 1670 formsparled · parling · parles
