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  • noun Plural form of garron.

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Examples

  • Only two rode horses, wretched garrons stolen from the Ruwalá, the great branch of the Anezah, which holds the eastern regions; the rest rode fine sturdy and long-coated camels, which looked Syrian rather than

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • Not satisfied with “eating us up,” with a coffee-pot ever on the fire, with demanding endless tobacco, and with making their two garrons devour more barley than our eight mules, they began to debate, aloud as usual, how much ready money they should demand.

    The Land of Midian 2003

  • The cavalry of this unholy gang was but three garrons, string and bone.

    John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn Neil Munro

  • Two brothers of the Ulstermen, Dubhan and Dubhaedh, stole Patrick's two garrons from the land (_tir_) to the east of the Nemhed

    The Most Ancient Lives of Saint Patrick Including the Life by Jocelin, Hitherto Unpublished in America, and His Extant Writings Various

  • Come on, b'ys; we'll thry and save the _garrons_ any way. '

    Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall

  • One of the sergeants was hit in the chest, Sergeant Tivey, a Canadian; he was put on one of the Turkish garrons and led along.

    The Leicestershires beyond Baghdad Edward John Thompson 1916

  • On the next evening they set out for Cool-a-vin, Costello riding a tolerable horse and carrying a sword, the others upon rough-haired garrons, and with their stout cudgels under their arms.

    The Secret Rose 1897

  • He passed through the fierce and friendly peasant faces, and came where his good horse and the rough - haired garrons were tied to bushes; and mounted and bade his ungainly bodyguard mount also and ride into the narrow boreen.

    The Secret Rose 1897

  • 'Here's out of it,' sez I. 'Onnathural,' sez he, musha cock him up, and himself shoein 'ould garrons all the days of his life.

    Strangers at Lisconnel Jane Barlow 1887

  • Not satisfied with "eating us up," with a coffee-pot ever on the fire, with demanding endless tobacco, and with making their two garrons devour more barley than our eight mules, they began to debate, aloud as usual, how much ready money they should demand.

    The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Richard Francis Burton 1855

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