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▪ I. † gare, n.1 Obs.
Forms: 1 gár, 3 gore, 3–4 gare, (3 Lay. gære).
[OE. gár str. masc. = OS., OHG. (MHG.) gêr (mod.Ger. revived in archaistic use as gehr, ger), ON. geir-r, Goth. *gais (only found in proper names, as Hario-gaisus):—OTeut. *gaizo-z. (The Goth. gairu σκόλοψ is unconnected.) The word was also in use among the Celtic peoples (hence OIrish gāi, gae, ga masc., from *gaiso), and was known to the Greeks and Romans (Gr. γαῖσον, γαῖσος, also Γαισάται Celtic mercenaries armed with this weapon; L. gæsum). To the stem *ghaiso- belongs also Gr. χαῖος, χαῖον shepherd's staff. The root *ghai- perh. appears also in OE. gād goad:—*ghai-tā́.]
A spear or javelin.
Beowulf (Z.) 1847 ᵹif þæt ᵹegangeð þæt ðe gar nimeð. c1000Ags. Ps. (Th.) liv. [lv.] 21 Hi word hira wel ᵹesmyredon..eft ᵹewurdon..scearpe garas [L. jacula]. c1205Lay. 27549 He heold on his honde ænne gare [c 1275 one spere] swiðe stronge. c1250Gen. & Ex. 3458 Dead ðolen, wið stones slaȝen Or to dead wið goren draȝen [L. confodietur jaculis. Exod. xix. 13].
b. wrongly used for ‘sword’.
c1330Amis. & Amil. 1353 Thai fight gan, With brondes bright and bare..The steward smot to him that stounde..With his grimly gare. a1400Isumbras 452 He sprange als any sparke one glede With grymly growndyne gare.
▪ II. † gare, n.2 Obs. rare.
Also 7 gaer.
[An altered form of gere.]
A sudden and transient fit of passion. ? Also in Comb. gare-brained a. dial. (see quot. 1674–91). Hence (?) ˈgarish a. dial. (see quot. 1674–91).
1606Warner Alb. Eng. xvi. cii. (1612) 404 But if shall one, els honest, erre through choler, vrg'd abuse, Or casually, their grudge or gaer admit no termes of truse. 1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxxi. viii. 412 The whole multitude..set upon a furious and mad mood, hastened in a fell and cruell gare [L. animisque concita truculentis] to trie the utmost hazard of battaile. Ibid. xxxi. xii. 421 The Emperour in a certain gare [other copies of the same ed. have geare] and violent heat made hast to encounter them. 1642Rogers Naaman 390 In a gare and heat, they will runne, ride and take any paines; but only so long as the pang holds. 1674–91Ray S. & E.C. Words 99 Gare-brain'd; very heedless..Garish is the same, signifying one that is as 'twere in a fright, and so heeds nothing.
▪ III. † gare, n.3 Obs.
[a. AF. gare = OF. gard, jart.]
(See quot.)
1542Gt. Abridgem. Stat. s.v. Wolles, That no denyzen or foren make any refuse of wolles but cot gare & vyllayn [1358 Act. 1 Edw. III, c. 8 Sinoun cot, gare, & vileine tuson]. 1607Cowell Interpr., Gare is a course wooll full of staring haires, as..groweth about the..shankes of the sheepe. 1721in Bailey; and in later Dicts.
▪ IV. † gare, n.4 Obs. rare—1.
[? ad. L. garum pickle.]
1562Turner Herbal ii. 66 The most part vse Basil and eate it with oyl & gare sauce for a sowle or kitchen.
▪ V. ‖ gare, n.5|gar|
[Fr.]
a. A dock-basin on a river or canal.
b. A railway station.
c. A pier, wharf, or the like.
1869S. Northcote Diary 17 Nov. in A. Lang Life (1890) I. xi. 360 Two or three gares have been hollowed out, where vessels may lie. 1870E. G. E. Ward Jrnl. 15 July in Outside Paris (1871) 2, I ran to the Gare of the Railway, and bought a paper just come from Paris. 1885H. James Little Tour in France (1900) xxxviii. 250 The whole despotic gare: the deadly salle d'attente, the insufferable delays over one's luggage, the porterless platform. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 708/2 Commander Edwards, R.N., proceeded down the Canal, taking possession of the gares and dredgers. 1906Daily Chron. 10 Sept. 5/6 When seen at the gare he was wearing a bowler hat and had a grey beard. 1912Q. Rev. Oct. 315 Gares, or mooring stations, are now provided.
▪ VI. gare, a. Sc.|gɛr|
Also gair.
[a. ON. gǫrr, gørr, gerr, gærr (:—*garwu-), also written geyrr, ready, prone to (with gen.) = OE. ᵹearo, ᵹearu (ME. ȝare yare), OS. garu, OHG. garo (MHG. gare, gar) ready. The change of meaning from ‘ready’ to ‘eager’, ‘sharp’, ‘covetous’ is also found with yare in northern dialects.]
†1. Ready; sharp, keen. Obs.
1513Douglas æneis vi. xiv. 30 With heding swerd, baith felloun, scherp, and gair.
2. transf. Eager, covetous, desirous of wealth; miserly.
1719Ramsay Ep. to Hamilton iii. 75 Thy raffan rural rhyme sae rare..gars fowk gae gare To ha'e them by them. 1788Picken Poems 114 Gair bodies a', now mak yer mane, Auld honest Harry's dead and gane. a1810Tannahill Poems (1846) 13 Thy Mither's gair and set upon the warl. 1822Galt Sir A. Wylie I. xxv. 227 He's a wee gair, I alloo.
▪ VII. ‖ gare, v. imp.|gɑː(r)|
Also 8 gar.
[a. F. gare imperative of garer = OF. garir, guarir, ad. Teut. *warjan (Goth. warjan, OHG., OS., OE. węrian) to defend.]
A cry of warning: Look out! beware! Also as simple imperative: Take care.
1653Urquhart Rabelais i. xxvii, He hurried therefore upon them so rudely, without crying gare or beware, that he overthrew them like hogs. 1705Vanbrugh Confed. iv. i, Hark! some body comes. Gar [ed. 1893 Gare] there, the enemy. 1896C. Dick Ways World 35 She will e'en undertake ‘interviewing’, But gare how your secrets she gleans.
▪ VIII. gare
var. gair Sc.; obs. form of gar v.
▪ IX. gare
Sc. and north, form of gore n. |