Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Rubbish found mixed with a cargo which has been stowed in bulk.
- noun Picking out; sorting.
- noun plural The worst part or refuse of a staple commodity.
- noun The act or practice of falsifying what has been said or written by partial or misleading quotation.
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- verb Present participle of
garble .
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Examples
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In his quotations from that speech, as he has made them upon former occasions, the extracts were taken in such a way as, I suppose, brings them within the definition of what is called garbling, taking portions of a speech which, when taken by themselves, do not present the entire sense of the speaker as expressed at the time.
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In his quotations from that speech, as he has made them upon former occasions, the extracts were taken in such a way as, I suppose, brings them within the definition of what is called garbling, -- taking portions of a speech which, when taken by themselves, do not present the entire sense of the speaker as expressed at the time.
Complete Project Gutenberg Abraham Lincoln Writings Abraham Lincoln 1837
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In his quotations from that speech, as he has made them upon former occasions, the extracts were taken in such a way as, I suppose, brings them within the definition of what is called garbling, -- taking portions of a speech which, when taken by themselves, do not present the entire sense of the speaker as expressed at the time.
The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 4 The Lincoln-Douglas debates Abraham Lincoln 1837
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Set your house in order with the Government for arrears of time and paper, and leave vengeance to the Lord, who will forgive my "garbling"
The Gentle Art of Making Enemies James McNeill Whistler 1868
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M3 sometimes does a good job of garbling translations ... it's the "Association of Former Border Patrol Agents" which is not so much a retiree group as a lobbying organization for MORE cops along the border.
Most victims of violent crime in Mexico not connected with narcotics 2009
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M3 sometimes does a good job of garbling translations ... it's the "Association of Former Border Patrol Agents" which is not so much a retiree group as a lobbying organization for MORE cops along the border.
Most victims of violent crime in Mexico not connected with narcotics 2009
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M3 sometimes does a good job of garbling translations ... it's the "Association of Former Border Patrol Agents" which is not so much a retiree group as a lobbying organization for MORE cops along the border.
Most victims of violent crime in Mexico not connected with narcotics 2009
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M3 sometimes does a good job of garbling translations ... it's the "Association of Former Border Patrol Agents" which is not so much a retiree group as a lobbying organization for MORE cops along the border.
Most victims of violent crime in Mexico not connected with narcotics 2009
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M3 sometimes does a good job of garbling translations ... it's the "Association of Former Border Patrol Agents" which is not so much a retiree group as a lobbying organization for MORE cops along the border.
Most victims of violent crime in Mexico not connected with narcotics 2009
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M3 sometimes does a good job of garbling translations ... it's the "Association of Former Border Patrol Agents" which is not so much a retiree group as a lobbying organization for MORE cops along the border.
Most victims of violent crime in Mexico not connected with narcotics 2009
chained_bear commented on the word garbling
"Spices required sorting and cleansing to get rid of impurities, a process called garbling. The guild of Pepperers of Sopers Lane, the spice street in the City of London, appointed garblers to inspect and certify purity before spices were weighed. Spices were sufficiently valuable so that even the inferior residue, what the Italian merchants called the garbellatura, was not simply discarded but sold as a cheaper, lower-quality version of an intrinsically precious product. Francesco Pegolotti's commercial handbook lists the spices that are normally garbled and compares the price of the invferior siftings with the pure aromatics. Thus mastic garbellatura is worth one-fifth the price of first-quality mastic. The ratio for pepper is one-third; for ginger one-half; for nutmeg one-third as long as there was no dust in the garbellatura."
Paul Freedman, Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination (New Haven and London: Yale UP, 2008), 124.
November 28, 2017