A variant or dialectal form related to garlic, or possibly an archaic term for a plant or herb used in cooking or medicine.
Possibly a dialectal or Middle English variant of garlic, with shifted pronunciation and spelling reflecting regional language variations.
Medieval English had dozens of regional spellings and pronunciations for common ingredients like garlic—gargil might be what people in one town called what another town called garlic!
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