Gar definition

Gar

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WordNet

(1) Elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters

(2) Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth

WiktionaryText

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

From gera, gerva (Swedish göra, Danish gjöre), from Germanic *garwjan. Compare yare.

To make, cause (someone to do something).
- 1885: Time gars me tremble. Ah, how sore the baulk! / While Time in pride of strength cloth ever stalk — Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Night 15

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