garget

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English garget, gargate (“throat”), (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French gargate. Compare gorge.

Noun

garget (plural gargets)

1. (obsolete) The throat.

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2. An inflammation on a cow's udder.
3. A distemper in pigs accompanied by staggering and loss of appetite.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Youatt to this entry?)

4. Pokeweed.

Derived terms

• gargety

References

• “garget”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

Anagrams

• tagger