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Webster 1913 Edition

Gurgle

Gur′gle

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Gurgled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Gurgling
.]
[Cf. It.
gorgogliare
to gargle, bubble up, fr. L.
gurgulio
gullet. Cf.
Gargle
,
Gorge
.]
To run or flow in a broken, irregular, noisy current, as water from a bottle, or a small stream among pebbles or stones.
Pure gurgling rills the lonely desert trace,
And waste their music on the savage race.
Young.

Gur′gle

,
Noun.
The act of gurgling; a broken, bubbling noise.
“Tinkling gurgles.”
W. Thompson.

Webster 1828 Edition

Gurgle

GUR'GLE

,
Verb.
I.
[L. gurges. See Gargle, which seems to 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.

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