garledadj.
/ˈɡɑːld/ Obsolete exc. dialect.
Spotted, speckled (chiefly of cattle); also red-garled.
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1506 Will of Johanne Pusey (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/15) f. 131 One cowe garled.
1507 Will of John Crisall (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/15) f. 254 Ij kyne garle & schell and the garle bullok.
1558 Will of Joan Pyshe (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/42A) f. 68 A Redgarlde Cow.
1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) iii. iv. 226/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I Red & fallow déere, whose colours are oft garled white and blacke.
1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1878) iii. xii. ii. 78 The writers also diuide this stone into fiue kinds..the fourth is garled with diuerse colours, among which some are like drops of bloud.
1809 T. Batchelor Orthoëpical Anal. Dial. Bedfordshire v, in Orthoëpical Anal. Eng. Lang. 133 Garld, white thickly spotted with red, the outside spots small; applied to cows.
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