garble

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

G'ARBLE, verb transitive [Latin cribro, cribello.] 1. Properly, to sift or bolt; to separate the fine or valuabale parts of a substance from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices. 2. To separate; to pick; to cull out.
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