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  • noun Plural form of gurglet.

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Examples

  • Running water-bearers pursued the couriers with gurglets, sprinkling the way.

    The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt Elizabeth Miller

  • From the pouches which lined the interior of the cot, and from a willow basket which was part of its furniture, he brought forth materials for a meal: platters close-woven of the fibres of palms; wine in small gurglets of skin; mutton dried and smoked; stoneless shami, or Syrian pomegranates; dates of El Shelebi, wondrous rich and grown in the nakhil, or palm orchards, of Central Arabia; cheese, like David's "slices of milk"; and leavened bread from the city bakery-all which he carried and set upon the carpet under the tent.

    Ben-Hur, a tale of the Christ 1901

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