garget

American  

[gahr-git] / ˈgɑr gɪt /

noun

1. Veterinary Pathology. inflammation of the udder of a cow; bovine mastitis.

2. pokeweed.

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garget British  

/ ˈɡɑːɡɪt /

noun

1. archaic inflammation of the mammary gland of domestic animals, esp cattle

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Other Word Forms

• gargety
  adjective

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Etymology

Origin of garget

1580–90; earlier, inflammation of the head or throat in livestock, apparently the same word as Middle English garget, gargat throat < Middle French gargate

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Example Sentences

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garget

Too high feeding is the cause of milk-fever, caked bag, garget, and a host of evils; and very poor feed is almost equally objectionable.

From Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. by Richard L. Allen

This belief is undoubtedly well founded, as some of the bacteria known to be the cause of garget are gas-forming.

From Outlines of dairy bacteriology A concise manual for the use of students in dairying by Edwin George Hastings

Injections into the udder are sometimes made in the treatment of garget, but so far with indifferent success.

From Special Report on Diseases of Cattle by United States. Bureau of Animal Industry

Perhaps one of the forms of garget, cow mammitis, is of an infectious character.

From A System of Practical Medicine by American Authors, Vol. I Volume 1: Pathology and General Diseases by Various

Thus:— Tâs, father, tassow. fôs, wall, fossow. lêr, floor, lerryow. gêr, word, gerryow. garget, garter, gargettow. b. 

From A Handbook of the Cornish Language chiefly in its latest stages with some account of its history and literature by Henry Jenner

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