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GAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters
Synonyms:
billfish; gar; needlefish
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("gar" is a kind of...):
teleost; teleost fish; teleostan (a bony fish of the subclass Teleostei)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gar"):
timucu (found in warm waters of western Atlantic)
Holonyms ("gar" is a member of...):
Belonidae; family Belonidae (ferocious fishes of warm regions resembling but unrelated to the freshwater gars)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth
Synonyms:
billfish; gar; garfish; garpike; Lepisosteus osseus
Classified under:
Nouns denoting animals
Hypernyms ("gar" is a kind of...):
ganoid; ganoid fish (primitive fishes having thick bony scales with a shiny covering)
Holonyms ("gar" is a member of...):
genus Lepisosteus; Lepisosteus (type genus of the Lepisosteidae: freshwater gars)
Context examples:
By my hilt! mon gar.! whispered Aylward to Alleyne, as the young squire stood with parted lips and wondering eyes, gazing down at the novel scene before him, we have been seeking them all night, but now that we have found them I know not what we are to do with them.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Nay, mon gar.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
One moment, mon gar.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
By my hilt! mon gar., it is very well when you do but shoot at a shield, but when there is a man behind the shield, and he rides at you with wave of sword and glint of eyes from behind his vizor, you may find him a less easy mark.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I fear, mon gar., that they have taught thee but badly at Beaulieu, for surely a bishop knows more of what is right and what is ill than an abbot can do, and I myself with these very eyes saw the Bishop of Lincoln hew into a Scottish hobeler with a battle-axe, which was a passing strange way of showing him that he loved him.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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