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(verb) - To mar butter in the making by handling in summer with hot hands. This turns it to a curd-like substance, with spots and streaks of paler colour, instead of the uniformly smooth consistency and golden hue which it ought to have. Very nice dairy-women use a piece of thin, flat wood instead of the hand. But this requires greater care and more time, so the butter is garled by being made in too much haste. It may come from Anglo-Saxon geare, expedite.
--Rev. Robert Forby's Vocabulary of East Anglia, 1830
January 16, 2018