English and French: from Middle English, Old French
garbe ‘wheatsheaf’, applied as a metonymic occupational name
for a reaper or harvester, or for someone who collected wheatsheaves
owed in rent.German: variant of Garb.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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