garled

English

Etymology

From Middle French garre (“bicolored”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɑː(ɹ)ld/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɡɑɹld/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ld

Adjective

garled (comparative more garled, superlative most garled)

1. (obsolete) Spotted; speckled;
   • 1586, Raphaell Holinshed, William Harrison, The First and ſecond volumes of Chronicles, […] , page 226, column 1:

     Other pernicious beaſts we haue not, except you repute the great plentie of red a fallow deere , whoſe colours are oft garled white and blacke, all white oꝛ all blacke , and ſtoꝛe of conies amongſt the hurtfull fort.

   • 1595, Rembert Dodoens, “Of Priuet” (chapter XXV), in Henrie Lyte, transl., A New Herball, or Historie of Plants, London:  […] Edm. Bollifant, page 802:

     The leaues of Pꝛiuet do cure the ſwellings, apoſtumations, and vicers of the mouth, and the ſoꝛes, and puſtules, oꝛ bliſters of the thꝛote, if the mouth be well waſhed, and the thꝛote garled with the decoction oꝛ iuice thereof.

   • 1625 [1613], William Finch, “Obſeruations of William Finch, Merchant, taken out of his large Iournall”, in Samuel Purchas, editor, Purchas his pilgrimes, London:  […] Henry Fetherston, page 417:

     In the woods neere about the Riuer, is great ſtore of beaſts,as big as M[]nkies, aſh-coloured, with a ſmall head, long taile like a Fox, garled with white and blacke, the furre very fine.

Further reading

• “garled, adj.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.