GAR

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish.

2.
n.

The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under Alligator), and Gar pike. Gar pike, or Garpike (Zoöl.), a large, elongated ganoid fish of the genus Lepidosteus, of several species, inhabiting the lakes and rivers of temperate and tropical America.

3.
v.

To cause; to make. [Obs. or Scot.] Spenser.