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Garth vs Gart - What's the difference?

garth | gart |

As a proper noun garth

is , shortened form of gareth.

As a verb gart is

.

garth

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters
  • A close; a yard; a croft; a garden.
    • a cloister garth
  • * Tennyson
    • A clapper clapping in a garth / To scare the fowl from fruit.
  • A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England
  • (paganism) A group or a household dedicated to the pagan faith Heathenry.
  • (paganism) A location or sacred space, in ritual and poetry in modern Heathenry.
  • A dam or weir for catching fish.

    • Related terms

    * gravegarth ----

    gart

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gar)
    • ----

    gar

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) gar, gare, gere, gore, from (etyl) . Related to (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) spear

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several fish, of the family , that have long, narrow jaws; garfish

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) garren, gerren, from (etyl) gera, gerva'' (Swedish ''''), from (etyl) . Compare ''yare .

    Verb

  • * 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book XX:
    • 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 [...].
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 15:
    • Time gars me tremble. Ah, how sore the baulk! / While Time in pride of strength cloth ever stalk [...].

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