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gurgeons, n. pl.|ˈgɜːdʒənz|
Now dial. Forms: α. 5– gurgeons, (7 gurgin, 7–8 gurgians, 8 -ins, 9 -ens). β. 7 grudgeons, -ions, -ins, grugings, 9 grudgings, 7– grodgeons.
[Cf. F. grugeons lumps of crystalline sugar in brown sugar, formerly also (in Cotgr.) ‘the smallest or most writhen fruit on a tree’; connected with gruger to crunch.]
Coarse meal; the coarse refuse from flour; pollards.
αa1483Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. (1790) 69 Not to boult it [the flour] soe sore uppon the gurgeones of branne. 1577Harrison England ii. vi. (1877) i. 154 The bran (usuallie called gurgeons or pollard). 1688R. Holme Armoury iii. 317/1 Bakers Terms in their Art. Gurgin, or Bran. 1706Phillips (ed. Kersey), Pityron, Bran, Gurgeons, the refuse of Ground Wheat. 1787Winter Syst. Husb. 229 Gurgians, which is nearly, if not equally as nutritive as barley-meal, and much cheaper. 1844W. Barnes Poems Dorset Dial. Gloss., Gurgens, pollard, coarse flour. 1855Morton Cycl. Agric. II. 724/2 Meal..is separated into flour..seconds, middlings, and even thirds; then blues, boxings, sharps, gurgeons, scuftings, pollards..and bran.
β1601Holland Pliny I. 564 Courser grodgeons for brown bread. 1611Cotgr., Annone,..meslin, or grudgins; the corne whereof browne bread is made for the meynie. 1623Fletcher & Rowley Maid of Mill iii. iii, You that can deal with G[r]udgins and coarse floure. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 339 Bread mingled of Meal and Grudgins. 1847–78Halliwell, Grudgings, pollard; fine bran. North. 1881Leicestersh. Gloss. s.v. Meal, Sharps or grudgeons. |