gast
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of gast
before 1000; Middle English gasten, Old English gǣstan
Example Sentences
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They dine at gast haüse, and sleep in the independence of a separate lodging.
From A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France by William Duthie
"Dod gast the luck!" yelled Jones reaching for another lasso.
From Tales of lonely trails by Zane Grey
And schewed welles of watres ware, And groundes of ertheli world unhiled are, For thi snibbing, Laverd myne; For onesprute of gast of wreth thine.
From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
Note also the characteristic long a; as in swa for swo, so; gast, ghost; fra, fro; faas, foes.
From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
Vat de gut zperets zend, gast not out!
From Heralds of Empire Being the Story of One Ramsay Stanhope, Lieutenant to Pierre Radisson in the Northern Fur Trade by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut
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