garget Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun tall coarse perennial American herb having small white flowers followed by blackish-red berries on long drooping racemes; young fleshy stems are edible; berries and root are poisonous
    scoke; Phytolacca americana; poke; pigeon berry.

WordNet

Garget noun
Etymology
OE. garget, gargate, throat, OF. gargate. Cf. Gorge. The etymol. of senses 2, 3, & 4 is not certain.
Definitions
  1. The throat. Obs. Chaucer.
  2. A diseased condition of the udders of cows, etc., arising from an inflammation of the mammary glands.
  3. A distemper in hogs, indicated by staggering and loss of appetite. Youatt.
  4. (Bot.) See Poke.

Webster 1913