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† gargilon Obs. rare.
Forms: 4 gargiloun, gargulun, 5 gargilon.
[a. OF. garguillon ‘the pipe or throat-pipe, whereby meat passeth into the stomach or craw of birds’ (Cotgr.), app. not recorded in the technical sense to which it is confined in English; f. gargouille throat. Cf. med.L. gargaliōn-em.]
The gullet or œsophagus of a deer.
The explanation in quot. 1696 is evidently a mere guess.
c1320Sir Tristr. 508 He tiȝt þe mawe on tinde And eke þe gargiloun. 13..Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 1335 Þay gryped to þe gargulun, & grayþely departed Þe wesaunt fro þe wynt-hole, & walt out þe guttez. 1486Bk. St. Albans E vij b, Off the nomblys of the hert..How mony endys ther shall be hem with inne..but oon thyk nor thynne And that is bot the Gargilon. And all theys oder crokes and Roundulis bene. [1696Phillips (ed. 5), Gargilon, an old Term in Hunting for the chief Part of the Heart in a Deer. 1721–1800in Bailey.] |