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254 *gurpl. Probably denotes a seething or roaring sound; see ,

gorbel [gȯrbəl],, of tide-rip: to be in uproar, to produce swirls; de sea is. to seethe; boil; roar; and either the same word as or cognate with garpla, , to rant, to talk rudely (R.), of garpa,, to brag, to talk noisily; to belch (gurpa,, to belch). may be either *garpla or
 * gurpla.

gorblot [gor·blåt·· (-blɔt··), gȯr-] and gorbloit [gȯr·blɔit··, -blåit··],, badly washed clothes, from which the dirt is only partly removed, also applied to the face and hands, : [gor-]; [gȯr-]. :, In DuDu. [sic] occasoccas. [sic] l [gȯl·blɔt··] = gorblot. *gor-blot. The first part of the is , , mud; dirt; the second part is and blot,, softening; soaking, steeping; ,

gorblot [gor·blåt·· (-blɔt··), gȯr-] and gorbloit [gȯr‘bloit··, -blåit··],, to wash badly, so that the dirt is partly left, applied to washing of clothes; also of the face and hands; du’s (you have) dy face, : [gor-]; [gȯr-]. :, In   [gȯl‘blɔt··] = gorblot. Mostly in, - (-, -), ; hit (de claith, the clothes) is only ; a face, a dirty (badly washed) face. — *gorblota ( *gor-bløyta?). The first part of the is, , mud; dirt. The second part, , more points back to a *blota, , to soften ( biota,, to become soft), than to bløyta,, to soften, soak. gorblautur, gorblaut,, extremely soft and moist (soaking wet: B.H.).

= garðr,  Now obsolete as an independent word, but preserved in some : balk (= ), ,, , , , , - or -, , The  “ gorda [məᶅa gōrda]”, “between the fences”, milium garða, is preserved in the Eshaness fishermen’s tabu- at sea; “de Isle (Isle o’ Øja) is ” is [sic] said by the fishermen, in finding a fishing-ground off the north of Mainland, when they have the Isle of Uyea just in front, half way between the skerry or islet “de (åsen: the ridge)" and the high point (west of the mouth of Rønis Voe), named “de Tingen Heads”: the isle is “enclosed". “Milla Gorda [məᶅa gōrda]” is found in Unst as the name of the boundary between the out-fields belonging to the farms Hogaland and Braknegert, likewise found as a place-name in Fetlar and possibly in other places. — As a place-name is found uncompounded (Gord), but more as the second part of , in names of farms, though not so as (gart). As the first part in place-names, is found in the compds: a), [gɔ‘rsæn·də, gɔ‘rs·ɛnd·, gå‘rsən(d)], a place where an old fence ends or formerly ended ( garðsendi,, the end of a fence), still partly understood by the older generation; b) [gɔ‘rste, gå‘rste, -stə], still used as a common noun; see further under , For the use of in place-names see Sh. Stedn. pp. 95—97.
 * gord [gōrd],, a yard; fence,

gordastøri,, see ,

gordbalk,, see ,

gordhird [gȯrhərd·, gərhərd·], , to bring the reaped corn into safety in the special enclosure (de corn-yard), to g. de corn. Also