Gast vs Gart - What's the difference?
gast | gart |
(obsolete) To frighten
(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:
As verbs the difference between gast and gart
is that gast is to frighten while gart is past tense of gar.gast
English
Verb
(en verb)- And be not so a-gast, for shame! —Geoffrey Chaucer, The House of Fame
- Or whether gasted by the noise I made, full suddenly he fled. —William Shakespeare, King Lear
Anagrams
* ----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 [...].