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Oat vs Gat - What's the difference?

oat | gat |

As nouns the difference between oat and gat

is that oat is widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa while gat is a Gatling gun.

As a verb gat is

to shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.

oat

English

(wikipedia oat)

Noun

  • (uncountable) Widely cultivated cereal grass, typically Avena sativa .
    • The oat stalks made good straw.
    The main forms of oat are meal and bran.
    World trade in oat is increasing.
  • (countable) Any of the numerous species, varieties, or cultivars of any of several similar grain plants in genus Avena .
    • The wild red oat''' is thought to be the ancestor of modern food '''oats .
  • (usually, as plural) The seeds of the oat, harvested as a food crop.

    • Derived terms

    * animated oat * oatmeal * rolled oats * be off one's oats * feel one's oats * sow one's wild oats * wild red oat

    See also

    * bran

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    gat

    English

    Etymology 1

    From Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.

    Noun

    (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

    Verb

    (gatt)
  • (slang) To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.
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    • Etymology 2

    From (m), by shortening

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (New Zealand, slang) A guitar

    • Etymology 3

    Verb

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

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