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- noun Plural form of
garboil .
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Examples
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Of these garboils, [585] whence springs a long discourse;
The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) Christopher Marlowe 1578
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(being vexed with the calamnities of intestine warres) as we haue had by the inestimable benefit of our long and happy peace: yet haue they both waies performed more, and had long since attained a sure possession and settled gouernment of many prouinces in those Northerly parts of America, if their many attempts into those forren and remote lands had not bene impeached by their garboils at home.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of The English Nation, Vol. XII., America, Part I. Richard Hakluyt 1584
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