Vatted vs Gatted - What's the difference?
vatted | gatted |
(vat)
A large tub, such as is used for making wine or for tanning.
A square, hollow place on the back of a calcining furnace, where tin ore is laid to dry.
(Roman Catholic) A vessel for holding holy water.
(dated) A liquid measure and dry measure; especially, a liquid measure in Belgium and Holland, corresponding to the hectolitre of the metric system, which contains 22.01 imperial gallons, or 26.4 standard gallons in the United States. (The old Dutch grain vat averaged 0.762 Winchester bushel. The old London coal vat contained 9 bushels. The solid-measurement vat of Amsterdam contains 40 cubic feet; the wine vat, 241.57 imperial gallons, and the vat for olive oil, 225.45 imperial gallons.)
To blend (wines or spirits) in a vat.
(gat)
(archaic, slang, in old westerns) A Gatling gun.
Any type of gun, usually a pistol.
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* 1988 ,
(slang) To shoot someone with a pistol or other handheld firearm.
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As verbs the difference between vatted and gatted
is that vatted is (vat) while gatted is (gat).vatted
English
Verb
(head)vat
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Noun
(en noun)Verb
(vatt)Anagrams
* * * * ----gatted
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Verb
(head)gat
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Etymology 1
From Gatling gun, after inventor Richard Gatling.Noun
(en noun)- 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.
- Goin' off on a motherfucker like that
- With a gat that's pointed at yo ass
Verb
(gatt)Etymology 2
From (m), by shorteningEtymology 3
Verb
(head)- And Abraham gat up early in the morning (Genesis 1927)
