† gabrilln.
Obsolete. rare.
Perhaps: an instance of gabbling; a foolish prattling.In quot. 1596, perhaps with punning allusion to gabble v., in a play on words with the name Gabriell.
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1596 T. Nashe Haue with you to Saffron-Walden sig. I Now where be our honorable Caualiers, that keepe such a prating and a gabrill about our Gabriell and his admirable stile.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018).
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n.1596- to get with the programme
- to get within
- to get wood
- to get work up a head of steam
- to get wrong
- to get yours
- to get, , lose flesh
- to get, come, etc, unstuck
- to get, get oneself in, lose flesh
- to get, give, have fair law
- to get, give, have fair law of
- to get, give, have law
- to get, give, have law of
- to get, give, have, obtain, take a licence
- to get, give, have, obtain, take licence
- to get, have or give a skrik
- to get, have or give someone a skrik
- to get, have, meet with one's deserts
- to get, have, or take a cold
- to get, have, or take a right sow by the ear
- to get, have, or take a wrong sow by the ear
- to get, have, or take the right sow by the ear
- to get, have, or take the wrong sow by the ear
- to get, have, possess the dead-wood
- to get, have, possess the deadwood