gar

noun

1. (Canada, US, especially)Any of several North American fish of the family Lepisosteidae that have long, narrow jaws.

   “Gars are long, slender, predatory fishes of quiet waters east of the Rockies.”

2. (Ireland, UK, especially)A garfish, Belone belone.
3. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of glycineamide ribonucleotide.
4. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of glutathione amide reductase.
5. (abbreviation, alt-of, initialism)Initialism of gross annual revenue.

verb

1. (UK, dialectal)To make, compel (someone to do something); to cause (something to be done).

   “I shall firste begyn at Sandwyche, and there I shall go in my shearte, barefoote, and at every ten myles ende I shall founde and gar make an house of religious, of what order that ye woll assygne me [...].”

   “Time gars me tremble. Ah, how sore the baulk! / While Time in pride of strength cloth ever stalk [...].”

name

1. (US, abbreviation, alt-of, historical, initialism, obsolete)Initialism of Grand Army of the Republic.

   “He was a Yankee and they say he would not hang a man who had been in the G.A.R.”

2. A county of Ngari prefecture, Tibet Autonomous Region, China.

   “No crops had ever grown before at the high altitude of Menshih Township of Gar County at the foot of Kangtiszu Peak.”

   “The figures indicate that Han peoples form 12 per cent of the registered residents of Gar county, and that Tibetans are 87.5 per cent of the county and 97.6 per cent of the prefecture.⁵⁸”