Definitions for GAR

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GAR gar

Spelling: [gahr]

IPA: /gɑr/

Gar is a 3 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 14 anagrams from letters in GAR (agr).

Definitions for GAR

noun

1. 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.
2. needlefish (def 1).

verb (used with object)

1. Scot. to compel or force (someone) to do something.
2. Scot. and North England Obsolete. to do, perform, or cause.

Origin of GAR

1755-65, Americanism; shortened form of garfish

Examples for GAR

A penny in my purse will gar me drink when my friends winna.

"I've got 'em, gar," cried Emens, and the two started back for their guns.

Wait till I do that which may gar her look at me,' said the chivalrous youth.

God curse my sister Margot and the day she gar'd me carry the letters!

By gar, me do look he shall clapper-de-claw me; for, by gar, me vill have it.

"gar Balks at Southern Flag in Parade," reported The Baltimore Sun.

Also called the guard-fish, but it is from the Anglo-Saxon gar, a weapon.

You could "gar her greet," but you could not "gar her know."

gar Dosson growls this out between his teeth as he sets his gun in the corner.

The bird that can sing, an' winna sing, should be gar'd sing.