[gar.ble] vt gar.bled ; gar.bling [ME garbelen, fr. OIt garbellare to sift, fr. Ar gharbala, fr. LL cribellare, fr. cribellum sieve; akin to L cernere to sift--more at certain] (15c) 1 archaic: cull
2: to sift impurities from 3 a: to so alter or distort as to create a wrong impression or change the meaning "~ a story" b: to introduce textual error into (a message) by inaccurate encipherment, transmission, or decipherment -- gar.bler n
[2]garble n (1502) 1: the impurities removed from spices in sifting
2: an act or an instance of garbling