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Rh wound, boil or abscess; — a thin, raw, doughy mass ; de gruel is like g., the gruel is thick and badly made. of bungled work; to mak’ a g. o’ onyting [‘something’], to make a mess of a piece of work. — Parallel to, ;  —  $2$,

gar [gar, gār],, 1) to dredge; rake; mix, with a short vowel [gar], 2)  to do a piece of work carelessly, of spinning or knitting; du’s  [gārɩn] in it, i’ de yarn ; to g. [gar] ower a ting, to work clumsily. From, See ,

gard [gard],, really an enclosure; fence, in this form now only found in sense of a halo around the sun or moon (portending rainy and stormy weather), sun-g., moon-g. Also [gērd]. garðr,, a fence, vedergard, veðurgarður,, a halo around the sun or moon. might also be the form “gerði”, , a of “garðr”. — With the same meaning as garðr (and gerði) are found some parallel forms to, : , ( as the last syllable in place-names) and As the first part of, besides -, are also found -, -; see and - , also, = ,,.
 * (still used in some ).

gardbalk, -bolk [garbək, gärbək] and gerdbalk [gærbak, gērbak, -bek, ꬶɛrbak],, ridge of earth marking the boundary between two patches of arable land. (-): , and elsewhere; : and  [gærbak, ꬶɛrbak], and [gærbak, -bək, gērbak (-bək)]. In (Skelbre) is found a form  [darbək], a corruption of “gardbalk”, meaning a big clod of earth. — *garðbalkr (-bǫlkr): garðbǫlkr, gardbolk, , part of a fence; balkr. (bǫlkr), , partition, (dividing) fence.

gari [gari],, applied to state of the weather: disagreeable, rainy weather (muddy under foot); a g. mornin’. From ,

garl, garel [garəl],, to dredge; to stir up a decomposed mass or thick fluid, porridge or doughy mass, , to g. in onyting [‘something’]. l- of ,

“ [rȯf··atu·]-g.”, used comparatively, denoting a person with untidy hair, a woman; in the phrase: „“ [sic]like a r.-g.” Applied in threatening address to children ( girls): “Bairn, bairn! du is gaun [‘going’] aboot wi’ a head like r.-g.”. Kollafirt’,  seems to have denoted a being with wild, dishevelled hair,  garmr, , a fabulous animal; a dog, really the dog in the infernal regions, Cerberus (for “Garmr” from “Cerberus”, see S. Bugge, Studier I). garm, , denotes a brake for preparing flax; to Ross., decorated with a carved dog’s (or horse’s) head; in similar sense gärma (garma), garmr,, denotes a good-for-nothing, a worn-out garment (B.H.). — The first part (see ), denotes something tattered, dishevelled.
 * garm [gārm, gār$h$m],, in the

gart, gärt [g$n$ä‘rt],, an enclosed, uncultivated patch of land (pasture) adjoining the village home-field (= ); in, , , used of all the enclosed plots of the village out-field, of pastures for the cattle. As a place-name is found , [ga‘rt, gä‘rt, ꬶä‘rt] and , [gä‘rþ], used of an enclosure, enclosed pasture,  for cattle; in   As the second part, in names of farms (and