On the theme of words used to convey the opposite meaning, I was made aware of another meaning of Garble recently. Up until then, I had known the word Garble to mean distort or mix-up, as in "the loudspeaker garbled the message so much, it was hard to make out the meaning". However (and both offline dictionaries I have consulted gave it as the first but obsolete meaning), it also means to sift or to sort the good from the bad, particularly with spices. So to extract the meaning from a garbled message, one garbles it!
Does any one on the board still use this older meaning and if so, in what context? And any other examples?