gargle
verb (used without object)
to wash or rinse the throat or mouth with a liquid held in the throat and kept in motion by a stream of air from the lungs.
gargler
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a word derived from
gargle.
Example Sentences
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When a gargler is a-gargling, I should think she could tell how much to use.”
From The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife by Ellen M. Firebaugh
Hydrastus Canadensis used as a gargler in a putrid state of the throat in malignant Scarlet fever, arrests the destructive process at once.
From An Epitome of the Homeopathic Healing Art Containing the New Discoveries and Improvements to the Present Time by B. L. (Benjamin L.) Hill
