Definition of "gouty"

When days and years proclaim you’re old — A dottle, cripple, gouty fellow,Then for support you can lay hold O’ the upright of your umberella.

1893, David Herschell Edwards, One Hundred Modern Scottish Poets: With Biographical and Critical Notices, volume 15, page 403

He helped Crabbe along to the rough landing-stage, a groaning Crabbe sorry for himself, a Crabbe with a bandaged foot, looking like a gouty uncle[.]

1959, Anthony Burgess, Beds in the East (The Malayan Trilogy), published 1972, page 576