garboil

• While they had "nourished the garboil" in Scotland, fanned the flame, they professed to believe that —  John Knox and the Reformation
• And even had he done so it is odds none would have heard him, for the late calm was of a sudden turned to garboil. —  Mistress Wilding
• "The fight is fought and lost; there's an end to the garboil. —  Mistress Wilding
• Giojoso fell to trembling; behind him, Rinolfo, the cause of all this garboil, stared with round big eyes; whilst my mother, all a-quiver, clutched at her bosom and looked at me fearfully, but spoke no word. —  The Strolling Saint; being the confessions of the high and mighty Agostino D'Anguissola, tyrant of Mondolfo and Lord of Carmina in the state of Piacenza
• A reader lights for the first time on one of these obsolete English words, as ‘frampold’, or ‘garboil’, or ‘brangle’ {198}; he is at once conscious of his ignorance; he has recourse to a glossary, of if he guesses from the context at the word’s signification, still his guess is as a guess to him, and no more. —  English Past and Present

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms