Garlick
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Garlick is a noun meaning Obsolete spelling of garlic.
Meaning
Obsolete spelling of garlic.
More Meanings
- (historical) A (type of) linen cloth historically exported from Germany.
Example Sentences
He may make a shift to sow lettuce, raise melons, and water a garden-plat; but otherwise, a very filthy fellow: how odiously he smells of his country garlick!
She chose one piece of garlick in November 1723 and one piece of silk crape from the same shipment in December the following year. Garlick was an imported linen cloth, very popular and used for .
Scarlett, blue, & Superfine Broad Cloth” (Pringle 1972, 1:31). Coarse cloth, checks, garlick, osnaburg, dowlas, Russia linen, and plains were cheap linen and woolen fabrics for working men and women and the enslaved.
Garlicks, Isinghams, Irish and Russia Cloth; fine Bag and rough Hollands, fine Cambricks, and Muslins, plain and strip'd ... Ann Porter sold second-hand childbed linen and clothing for the poor, which would have been bought by the .
Word Forms
- garlicks
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include gugel, gause, guzzy, galatea, organdy, globard.
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