Gart vs Gurt - What's the difference?
gart | gurt |
(gar)
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* 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book XX:
* 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 15:
(mining) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.
* 1842 , The Sportsman , Volume VI: January to June,
* 1845 , Douglas Jerrold (editor), Shilling Magazine , Volume II: July to December,
* 1884 , John Coker Egerton, Sussex Folk and Sussex Ways: Stray Studies in the Wealden Formation of Human Nature ,
As a verb gart
is .As an acronym gurt is
; a generic term for proposed or implemented methods to restrict use of genetically modified plants, by ensuring the sterility of any seeds .gart
English
Verb
(head)gar
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) gar, gare, gere, gore, from (etyl) . Related to (l).Etymology 2
Etymology 3
From (etyl) garren, gerren, from (etyl) gera, gerva'' (Swedish ''''), from (etyl) . Compare ''yare .Verb
- 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 [...].
- Time gars me tremble. Ah, how sore the baulk! / While Time in pride of strength cloth ever stalk [...].
Anagrams
* ----gurt
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- (Page)
Etymology 2
From great.Alternative forms
* gertAdjective
page 103,
- Zo ?e bought a slap-up rod and tackle, and, ev coose, a darn gurt book vull o? vlies — talk?d about ketchin? whackin? trout, and me — ap a salmon the fust time.
page 416,
- “That was the word,” said Farmer Forder. “Hav?n pocketed the tuppunce, the chap as show?d off the clock opened the case, and let me zee the works of ?un, and wonderful works they was : wheels within wheels, and all sorts o? crinkum-crankums, like a gurt puzzle.”
page 27,
- “Well, Tom, where did those birds settle?”
- “Down there, sir, under that gurt oak-tree.”
- Not a bird, however, was to be found.
