gar
noun
any predaceous freshwater fish of the genus Lepisosteus, of North America, covered with hard, diamond-shaped scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth.
gar
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[gahr]
/ gɑr /
noun
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gar,
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gars
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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.
gar
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[gahr]
/ gɑr /
verb (used with object)
garred,
garring
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Scot. to compel or force (someone) to do something.
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Scot. and North England Obsolete. to do, perform, or cause.
gar.
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abbreviation
G.A.R.
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abbreviation
gar
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British
/ ɡɑː /
noun
gar
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/ ɡɑːr /
verb
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of gar1
1755–65, shortened form of garfish
Origin of gar2
1250–1300; Middle English geren, garren, gairen < Old Norse gera to do, make; akin to Old English gearwian to prepare
Example Sentences
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This has likely kept gar genomes so stable that species and even genera whose last common ancestor lived more than 100 million years ago have diverged very little.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 8, 2024
The alligator gar caught in eastern China last week weighed roughly 11 pounds.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2022
He also said voters had responded positively to his party's plans to cut VAT using the proceeds from a windfall tax on the profits of oil and gar companies.
From BBC ● May 6, 2022
Even though modern bony fishes are much more diverse today, a previous study found that in the past they were not as numerous or varied as holosteans—the prehistoric relatives of today’s gar and paddlefish.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 23, 2022
There were eels, gar, carp, river carpsuckers, gizzard shad, and buffalo.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
"Hola, mon gar.," said Aylward, seating himself upon a boulder by his side.
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
"It is like enough, mon gar., as things go."
From The White Company by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
About 250 arts professionals attended the symposium, presented in the G.A.R.
From Chicago Tribune ● Jun. 8, 2011
Originally a bewhiskered mimic of old hicks, he was famed for his earthy, hayseed wit, his tearful portrayal of a G.A.R. veteran scuffling down the road to the poorhouse.
From Time Magazine Archive
One statesman remarked that the G.A.R., having saved the country, now wanted it.
From Time Magazine Archive
The headquarters of the Grand Army of the Republic at Des Moines announced that there were at the beginning of 1923 71,106 G.A.R. veterans as opposed to 85,618 a year before.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was on Decoration Day, in a G.A.R. uniform, in the middle of the parade.
From "The Sound and the Fury" by William Faulkner
Prehistoric-looking fish called gars, which have the slowest rate of molecular evolution of all jawed vertebrates, are the most striking examples.
From Science Magazine ● Mar. 8, 2024
“Economically, of course, it’s not worth it. Are we going to drain every lake when we spot gars there?” he said.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 25, 2022
I always loved the huge alligator snapping turtle, watch your hands, but the huge gars, alligator gars and catfish are gone forever.
From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2018
The gars, a family of fish with long bodies, extended jaws, sharp teeth, and hard scales, has been on the planet for at least 100 million years.
From The Verge ● Dec. 20, 2015
Some of the beg gars look too young to have even taken the Trial.
From "Legend" by Marie Lu
Sandy gaed inby to the shafts, but he sprang back when Princie ga'e a squeek an' garred his heels play tnack on the boddom o' the cairt.
From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond
And when we reached the Staneshaw-Bank, The wind was rising loud and hie; And there the Laird garred leave our steeds, For fear that they should stamp and neigh.
From Lyra Heroica A Book of Verse for Boys by Various
An' oot at the door he gaed, halin't to ahent him wi' a bang that garred the very sweetie bottles rattle.
From My Man Sandy by J. B. Salmond
And while the din was at its height in the cot, there came a sound to Mistress Comline's ear that garred her kind heart loup within her.
From Deep Moat Grange by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
Then she took it across her knee and garred it play snap like a rotten branch.
From The Men of the Moss-Hags Being a history of adventure taken from the papers of William Gordon of Earlstoun in Galloway by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
The deil's in you, Monkbarns, for garring odds and evens meet.
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Sir Walter Scott
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