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Yarr vs Carr - What's the difference?

yarr | carr |

As a verb yarr

is to growl or snarl like a dog.

As a noun carr is

a bog or marsh; marshy ground, swampland.

yarr

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (archaic) To growl or snarl like a dog.
  • * 1921 , Chamber's Journal
    • She yapped and yarred and ran in foolish circles, as though quarrelling with her own tail.
  • * François Rabelais (in translation), Gargantua and Pantagruel
    • And when he saw that all the dogs were flocking about her, yarring at the retardment of their access to her, and every way keeping such a coil with her as they are wont to do about a proud or salt bitch, he forthwith departed

    carr

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A bog or marsh; marshy ground, swampland.
  • * 2007 , Kevin Leahy, The Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Lindsey , Tempus 2008, p. 16:
    • The marsh lands or ‘carrs ’ that covered the low-lying floor of the vale could not be cultivated and the poorly drained flanks of the vale would be best used as pasture.
  • A marsh or fen on which low trees or bushes grow; a marshy woodland.
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