gast
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of gast
before 1000; Middle English gasten, Old English gǣstan
Example Sentences
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De lady make welcome her gast in, Ash he shtep to de dop of de shtair, She look like an angel got lost in A forest of audumn-prown hair.
From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey
Ongunnon �a oftorfian mid heardum stanum �one eadigan Stephanum; and h� clypode, and cw��, "Drihten Hǽlend, onf�h minne gast."
From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham
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 Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina)
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 Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
Hi �a dydon be ��s apostoles h�se, and se awyrigeda gast ne mihte na leng hi dreccan.
From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham
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