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  • noun Plural form of gugglet.

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Examples

  • Al – Juwayb, which dry up the water-skins; but if the water be in gugglets, no harm can come to it.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • “Right,” said Musa and sending to Alexandria, let bring thence great plenty of gugglets.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Thy water-skin is worth if dear three dirhams, and the gugglets I emptied on the ground held a pint or so of water.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But, as I sat pondering my case and boiling like cauldron over fire, behold, my host came back, accompanied by a porter loaded with bread and meat and new cooking-pots and gear and a new jar and new gugglets and other needfuls.

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • But he said to Musa privily, “O Emir, take with thee a thousand camels laden with victual and store of gugglets.”

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • The youth was employed all day, with sleeves tucked up, and working like a porter, in covering the litter with matting and rugs, in mending broken parts, and in providing it with large pockets for provisions inside and outside, with pouches to contain the gugglets of cooled water.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • Flight8: we did not fail to keep our asses at speed, with a few halts to refresh ourselves with gugglets of water.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • As far as Kuba, and the Harrah ridge to the West, the earth is sweet and makes excellent gugglets. 1 Immediately outside the gate I saw a kiln, where they were burning tolerable bricks.

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • It was a low-ceilinged room, stocked with candles, seeds, and other commodities which a humble householder might desire to purchase, including certain of those water-gugglets of Corigliano ware in whose shapely contours something of the artistic dreamings of old Sybaris still seems to linger.

    Old Calabria Norman Douglas 1910

  • I offered the gugglet to one, that he might drink; but he cried, 'I have eaten naught whereon to drink; for a niggard invited me this day and set two gugglets before me; so I said to him,' O son of the sordid, hast thou given me aught to eat that thou offerest me drink after it? '

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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