Definition for GUR'GLE

GUR'GLE, [It. gorgogliare, from gorga, the throat, gorgo, a whirlpool, L. gurges. See Gargle, which seems be of the same family; or 'the same word differently applied.]

To run as liquor with a purling noise; to run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream on a stony bottom. Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace. Young.

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