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Gast vs Gart - What's the difference?

gast | gart |

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)
  • (obsolete) To frighten
  • 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

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    gart

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gar)
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    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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