garget

Middle English garget, gargate (“throat”), Old French gargate. Compare gorge.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑː(ɹ)ɡɪt/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ɡɪt

garget (plural gargets)

1. An inflammation on a cow's or sheep's udder.
   • 1836, William Youatt, Cattle: Their Breeds, Management, and Diseases

     Chronic indurations will sometimes remain after the inflammation of garget has been subdued; they will be somewhat tender, and they will always lessen the quantity of milk

2. A distemper in pigs accompanied by staggering and loss of appetite.

   Synonym: gargol

3. Pokeweed.

• gargety

garget

1. The throat.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

• garget in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• tagger