gast
Americanverb (used with object)
Etymology
Origin of gast
before 1000; Middle English gasten, Old English gǣstan
Example Sentences
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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 Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
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 Duthie, William
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)
"Let go, dod gast you!" he bellowed, jerking the lasso out of the professor's hands, while the albatross went flapping off, a long streamer of rope hanging from its neck.
From The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic by Goldfrap, John Henry
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