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A woman who has a drunken husband is most fortunate if she can prevail upon him to go to the priest, and make a vow against whiskey for a year, or a month, or a week, or a day 11] Gossoon_, a little boy--from the French word garçon_.

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  1. noun Any of several ganoid fishes of the family Lepisosteidae of fresh and brackish waters of North and Central America, having long narrow jaws, an elongated body, and a long snout.
  2. noun A similar or related fish, such as the needlefish. Also called garfish, garpike.
  3. transitive verb Scots To cause or compel.

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  1. Short for garfish.
  2. Middle English geren, from Old Norse gera, to make.

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  1. from Middle English gar, later gore (the form gar remaining in comp. garbill, garfish, garlic (q. v.), or in proper names (see def. 1), the vowel, orig. long, being shortened before the two consonants or when unaccented), from Anglo-Saxon gār, Middle English gar, gore, a spear: see gore, and cf. garlic.
  2. from Middle English garren, gerren, garen, another form (after Icelandic göra = Swedish göra = Danish gjöre, make, cause, do) of Middle English ʒarwen, ʒarewien, ʒaren, yaren, from Anglo-Saxon gearwian, rarely gerwan, make ready, prepare, procure, = Old Saxon garuwian, gerwean, girwian = Old High German garawian, garwēn, gariwen, prepare, Middle High German garwen, gerwen, make ready, prepare, equip, clothe, dress leather, German gerben (= Danish garve = Swedish garfva), dress leather, tan, curry, = Icelandic göra, etc., as above, from Anglo-Saxon gearu, gearo, English yare, ready, = Old High German garo = Icelandic görr, ready: see garb, gear, and yare, adjective and v.
  3. Also garr, gaar; a variant of gor, dial. form of gore.
 

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