gar

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. 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. n. A similar or related fish, such as the needlefish. Also called garfish, garpike.
3. v. Scots To cause or compel.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A spear: an element in certain proper names of Anglo-Saxon origin, as Edgar (AS. Eádgār, happy or fortunate spear), Ethelgar (AS. Aethelgār, noble spear), etc.
2. n. [Abbr. of garfish.] A garfish; one of several different fishes, belonging to different orders, which have a long sharp snout or beak, likened to a spear; a bill-fish: as, the common gar, Belone vulgaris; especially, in the United States, a ganoid fish of the family Lepidosteidœ; a garpike.
3. To cause; make; force; compel.
4. n. Mud; ooze; dirt; slime.
5. n. Vegetable slime found adhering to ships' bottoms.

Wiktionary

1. n. Any of several fish, of the family Lepisosteidae, that have long, narrow jaws; garfish

GNU Webster's 1913

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.
3. v. Obs. or Scot. To cause; to make.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters
2. n. primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth