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▪ I. † garget1 Obs. rare.
Also 4 gargaz, gargat.
[a. OF. gargate, garguette (both forms are found in mod. dialects) = It. gargatta, Sp. and Pg. garganta. It is doubtful whether these can be connected with F. gorge: see gargil1, gargoyle.]
The throat.
13..K. Alis. 3636 Of Grece he smot a baroun..Thorugh the gargaz [MS. Laud garget] and the gorger. c1386Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 515 The fox stert up at oones, And by the garget [v.r. gargat] hente Chaunteclere.
▪ II. garget2|ˈgɑːgɪt|
Also 8–9 gargut.
[perh. a special use of prec., originally denoting a disease of the throat, the other senses being derived from this. Cf. gargil2.]
1. An inflamed condition of the head or throat in cattle and pigs.
1587L. Mascall Govt. Cattle (1627) 267 The garget is..a swelling and inflamation in the throat, behinde the iawes of the hogge. 1639T. de Grey Compl. Horsem. 61 It..causeth oft times fleshy stuffe like to the garget to grow in his throat. 1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v., As for the Garget in the Head and Throat..it's a Cousin German to the Murrain, for the Cattle will swell and be puck'd under their Jaws like rotten Sheep. 1736Bailey Househ. Dict. 297 The Gargut or blood in Swine..It shews itself almost like a fever in swine, by their staggering in their gate, and their loathing their meat. 1797W. Green in A. Young Agric. Suffolk 95 Turnips are apt to give them [calves] the garget, by which they very commonly die. 1808Curwen Econ. Feeding Stock 188, I had the mortification to find the greater part of them [cattle] attacked by the garget.
b. A similar disease in poultry.
1817Sporting Mag. L. 261 The roup, the gargut and the murrain, are terms often applied indiscriminately to the diseases of fowls.
2. Inflammation in a cow's or ewe's udder.
1725Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v., Adder's tongue ointment, It's..a most sovereign and excellent Remedy..for any hard Swellings..and particularly very good for a Garget in a Cow's Bag. 1849Stephens Book of Farm (ed. 2) I. 607/1 The only complaint the ewe..is subject to is inflammation in the udder, or udder-clap, or garget. 1880New Virginians I. 53 An infusion..is used as a fomentation for cows afflicted with garget.
3. transf. and fig. A distemper, plague. to run of (or on) a garget: to become diseased.
1615T. Adams Sacrif. Thankfuln. 18 The Drunkard is without a head, the Swearer hath a Garget in his throat. ― Mystical Bedl. ii. 56 If it were granted, that the Couetous were madde, the world it selfe would runne of a garget: for who is not bitten with this madde dogge? 1616― Dis. Soule viii. 31.
4. Short for garget-plant.
1788M. Cutler in Life, Jrnls. & Corr. (1888) I. ix. 422 Garget, sow-thistle, etc. 1792J. Belknap Hist. New Hampsh. III. 125 The Garget is a valuable plant.
5. Comb.: garget-plant U.S., the Virginian poke-weed (Phytolacca decandra); garget-root dial., the root of Helleborus fœtidus, or bear's foot.
1787W. Marshall Norfolk Gloss. (E.D.S.) Gargut-root. 1882Garden 13 May 326/3 The Poke Weed..the farmers around here call..Garget plant. |