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Gar vs Garb - What's the difference?

gar | garb |

As nouns the difference between gar and garb

is that gar is gaur (species of wild cattle) while garb is fashion, style of dressing oneself up or garb can be (heraldiccharge) a wheat sheaf.

As a verb garb is

to dress in garb.

gar

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) gar, gare, gere, gore, from (etyl) . Related to (l).

Noun

(en noun)
  • (obsolete) spear

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several fish, of the family , that have long, narrow jaws; garfish

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) garren, gerren, from (etyl) gera, gerva'' (Swedish ''''), from (etyl) . Compare ''yare .

    Verb

  • * 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book XX:
    • I shall firste begyn at Sandwyche, and there I shall go in my shearte, barefoote, and at every ten myles ende I shall founde and gar make an house of religious, of what order that ye woll assygne me [...].
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 15:
    • Time gars me tremble. Ah, how sore the baulk! / While Time in pride of strength cloth ever stalk [...].

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    garb

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) and (etyl) gear).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Fashion, style of dressing oneself up.
  • A type of dress or clothing.
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  • *:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.Indeed, all his features were in large mold, like the man himself, as though he had come from a day when skin garments made the proper garb of men.
  • (lb) A guise, external appearance.
  • *(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
  • *:You thought, because he could not speak English in the native garb , he could not therefore handle an English cudgel.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To dress in garb.

    • Etymology 2

    (etyl) gerbe; akin to German Garbe

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (heraldiccharge) A wheat sheaf.
  • A measure of arrows in the Middle Ages.
  • * 1957 , H. R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry , page 118.
    • Yorkshire supplied 500 bows, and 580 garbs of arrows, 360 of which had iron heads pointed with steel.''

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