Gau vs Gat - What's the difference?

gau | gat |

As a proper noun gau

is a shire or district; especially a district in the third reich or gau can be an accident, a calamity.

throat.

* ghau

(en noun)

(Tibetan Buddhism) A prayer box or small container worn as jewelry/jewellery and containing an amulet or similar item.

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From Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.

(en noun)

(archaic, slang, in old westerns) A Gatling gun.

Any type of gun, usually a pistol.

* 1939 , .

You're the second guy I've met within hours who seems to think a gat in the hand means a world by the tail.

* 1988 ,

Goin' off on a motherfucker like that

With a gat that's pointed at yo ass

(gatt)

(slang) To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.

From (m), by shortening

(en noun)

(New Zealand, slang) A guitar

(head)

(get)

And Abraham gat up early in the morning (Genesis 19²⁷)

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