Garbel vs Gabel - What's the difference?
garbel | gabel |
(obsolete) Anything sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been taken.
(UK, legal, obsolete) A rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.
* Jeremy Taylor
As nouns the difference between garbel and gabel
is that garbel is (obsolete) anything sifted, or from which the coarse parts have been taken or garbel can be (nautical) while gabel is (uk|legal|obsolete) a rent, service, tribute, custom, tax, impost, or duty; an excise.garbel
English
Etymology 1
Compare garble (transitive verb).Noun
Etymology 2
gabel
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Burrill)
- He enables St. Peter to pay his gabel by the ministry of a fish.