Astart

Origin

From Middle English asterten, asteorten, from a- (from Old English ā-) + sterten, equivalent to - + start.

Full definition of astart

Verb

1. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to start; startle; start up; jump.
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:oft out of her bed she did astart,
  As one with vew of ghastly feends affright ....
2. (intransitive) To start up.
3. (obsolete) To get away, escape; escape from.
4. (intransitive) To be escaped from.

Anagrams

• attars, strata, Tatars