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.
Scot. to compel or force (someone) to do something.
Scot. and North England Obsolete. to do, perform, or cause.
1755–65, shortened form of garfish
1250–1300; Middle English geren, garren, gairen < Old Norse gera to do, make; akin to Old English gearwian to prepare
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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
In the United States, where the alligator gar population appears to be in decline, transport and trade of the fish is regulated by federal law.
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
"They did for Santa- gar," the Hound continued.
From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin
"Hola, mon gar.," said Aylward, seating himself upon a boulder by his side.
From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
"It is like enough, mon gar., as things go."
From The White Company by Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir
About 250 arts professionals attended the symposium, presented in the G.A.R.
From Chicago Tribune ● Jun. 8, 2011
Hanging in the wreckage of his plane off Plymouth Beach in 1912, he saw help coming: two old codgers in G.A.R. uniforms in a rowboat.
From Time Magazine Archive
The number of G.A.R. posts shrank from 4,218 to 3,659 in the same period.
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
From behind the closed inner door of the cothouse there came a high-pitched angry cry that garred the very blood run chill as ice in Margaret Comline's veins.
From Deep Moat Grange by Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
Princie, as he ca'd him, ga'e a gley roond wi' the white o' his e'e that garred Sandy keep a gude yaird clear o' him.
From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.
This garred a' the billies sit back in their seats, an' dicht their moos wi' their jeckit sleeves, an' host.
From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.
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 Crockett, S. R. (Samuel Rutherford)
It would be aboot ane o'clock or thereaboot when Sandy gae me a daud wi' his elba that garred me a' jump.
From My Man Sandy by Salmond, J. B.
The deil's in you, Monkbarns, for garring odds and evens meet.
From The Antiquary — Volume 02 by Scott, Walter, Sir
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