gurgeons/ˈɡɜː(ɹ)d͡ʒənz/EtymologyProbably borrowed from Middle French grugeon (“sugar lump”), from grugier (“to laugh”).nounA coarse bran flour.“The raueled cheat therfore is generallie ſo made that out of one buſhell of meale, after two and twentie pounds of bran be ſifted and taken from it (wherevnto they ad the gurgeons that riſe from the manchet) they make thirtie cast, euerie lofe weighing eightéene ounces into the ouen and ſixteene ounces out[…]”