Gar

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ɡɑː/
• US IPA: /ɡɑɹ/, ɡɑɹ, É¡É‘Ëž
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)

From Middle English gar, gare, gere, gore, from Old English gār ("spear, dart, javelin, shaft, arrow, weapon, arms"), from Proto-Germanic *gaizaz ("spear, pike, javelin"), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰayso- ("pointed stick, spear"), from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰey- ("to drive, move, fling"). Cognate with West Frisian gear, Dutch geer ("pointed weapon, spear"), German Ger ("spear"), Norwegian geir ("spear"), Icelandic geir ("spear"). Related to gore.

Full definition of gar

Noun

1. (obsolete) Spear.

Short for garfish.

Noun

1. Any of several fish, of the family , that have long, narrow jaws; garfish

From Middle English garren, gerren, from Old Norse gera, gerva (Swedish göra, Danish gøre), from Proto-Germanic *garwijaną. Compare yare.

Verb

1. (now chiefly UK dialectal) To make, cause (someone to do something); to cause (something to be done). 14th-19th c.
• 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book XX:I shall firste begyn at Sandwyche, and there I shall go in my shearte, barefoote, and at every ten myles ende I shall founde and gar make an house of religious, of what order that ye woll assygne me ....
• 1885, Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 15:Time gars me tremble. Ah, how sore the baulk!
  While Time in pride of strength cloth ever stalk ....

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