what does 'garbelling' mean?

[dyszol]

hi, as in the topic i wanted to ask if anybody knows what this bloody word 'garbelling' mean
i need this word for my translation homework
if anyone needs some contextual tip, here it goes:
'A Profitable and necessarie discourse, for the meeting with the bad garbelling of spices, vsed in these daies. And against the combination of the workemen of that office, contrarie vnto common good.'

i used google and it didn't come very handy, also it seems this word appears only in XVI/XVII century english, regarding 'Assize of Bread and Ale', 'Grocers' company', 'Apothecaries' etc..

thanks for your help

[novelsryou]

Garbled (www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/garbled). I'd say maybe so many spices mixed up that no individual spice is discernable. The workmen, like the spices, don't work well together.

[Anza]

garbelling = mixing or sifting (I think...)

[dyszol]

great! this helped me a lot, thanks mates
topic to be closed, problem solved