gar
1- Also called garfish, garpike. any predaceous freshwater fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North America, covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.
- needlefish(def 1).
Origin of gar
1gar
2- Scot. to compel or force (someone) to do something.
- Scot. and North England Obsolete. to do, perform, or cause.
Origin of gar
2gar.
G.A.R.
- Grand Army of the Republic.
Examples from the Web for gar
Contemporary Examples of gar
"GAR Balks at Southern Flag in Parade," reported The Baltimore Sun.
Star-Spangled Confederates: How Southern Sympathizers Decided Our National AnthemJefferson Morley
July 4, 2013
Historical Examples of gar
Wait till I do that which may gar her look at me,' said the chivalrous youth.
Two Penniless PrincessesCharlotte M. Yonge
"I've got 'em, Gar," cried Emens, and the two started back for their guns.
Shadows of ShastaJoaquin Miller
Gar Dosson growls this out between his teeth as he sets his gun in the corner.
Shadows of ShastaJoaquin Miller
Also called the guard-fish, but it is from the Anglo-Saxon gar, a weapon.
The Sailor's Word-BookWilliam Henry Smyth
God curse my sister Margot and the day she gar'd me carry the letters!
Privy SealFord Madox Ford
gar
1gar
2- (tr) Scot to cause or compel
Word Origin for gar
Word Origin and History for gar
"pike-like fish," 1765, American English, shortening of garfish (mid-15c.), from Old English gar "spear," from Proto-Germanic *gaizo- (cf. Old Norse geirr, Old Saxon, Old High German ger, German Ger "spear"), from PIE *ghaiso- "stick, spear" (see goad).