garget

plural gargets

1. archaicAn inflammation on a cow's or sheep's udder; synonym of mastitis.

   Chronic indurations will sometimes remain after the inflammation of garget has been subdued; they will be somewhat tender, and they will always lessen the quantity of milk.

   1836, William Youatt, Cattle: Their Breeds, Management, Diseases

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   Mastitis is a disease of the udder. More specifically, mastitis is an inflammation of the udder usually caused by germs which enter through the teat canal. Many dairymen and farmers refer to the disease by the terms garget, caked udder, and a variety of other names. All, however, are one and the same disease.

   1941, W.L. Boyd, W.A. Billings, W.G. Andberg, University of Minnesota Agricultural Extension Service, “Mastitis or Garget in Cattle”, in Extension Folder, University of Minnesota Digital Conservancy

   [speaking of Suffolk in the era circa World War I] As well as these special journeys we could go for regular inspections of the cattle—because there were troubles. Some of them would be heifers or dry cows, and they would get what I suppose we'd call mastitis today but then we called it gargut [spelling as given].

   1971, George Ewart Evans, quoting Margaret Meek (born 1909), Tools of Their Trades: An Oral History of Men at Work c. 1900, Taplinger Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 143

2. A distemper in pigs accompanied by staggering and loss of appetite.

   Synonyms: gargol

3. Pokeweed.

   Synonyms: coakum, inkberry, pigeonweed, pocan, poke, poke salad, scoke