Emily Dickinson Lexicon

GAR'BLE, v.t. [Sp. garbillar; It. cribrare, crivellare; Fr. cribler; L. cribro, cribello. Qu. Ar. غَرْبَلَ garbala, or Ch. כרבל, to sift, to bolt. Class Rb, No. 30, 34, 46.]

1. Properly, to sift or bolt; to separate the fine or valuable parts of a substance from the coarse and useless parts, or from dross or dirt; as, to garble spices.
2. To separate; to pick; to cull out. Dryden. Locke.