gurglet
English
Noun
gurglet (plural gurglets)
- Alternative form of goglet
- 1855, John Welsh Dulles, Life in India, Palankeen Travelling:
- From the ceiling hangs a net in which your cap, a few oranges, a brush, &c., find a place, and in each corner you can put some useful article. Without, a rattan basket hangs, containing a tumbler and gurglet, or earthenware bottle.
- 1880, Lew Wallace, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, Book 1, Chapter 2:
- In token thereof, he went first to the litter, and, from the cot or box opposite the one he had occupied in coming, produced a sponge and a small gurglet of water, with which he washed the eyes, face, and nostrils of the camel
References
- “gurglet”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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