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garled, a. Obs. exc. dial.|ˈgɑːld| Also 6 garle. [app. some kind of derivative of OF. garre, garré of similar meaning.] Spotted, speckled (chiefly of cattle); also red-garled.
1501Will of Pusey (Somerset Ho.), One cowe garled. 1507Will of Crisall (Ibid.), Ij kyne garle & schell and the garle bullok. 1558Will of J. Pysle (Ibid.), A Redgarlde Cow. 1577–86Holinshed Chron. I. 226 Red and fallow deer, whose colours are oft garled white and blacke. 1587Harrison England iii. xii. (1878) 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. 1809Batchelor Orthoep. Anal. Eng. Lang. 133 Garld, white thickly spotted with red, the outside spots small; applied to cows. |