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Grammar : Verb
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Phonetic Transcription : gæt



Definition of gat

Origin :
  • "revolver," 1904, slang shortening of Gatling (gun); by 1880, gatlin was slang for a gun of any sort.
  • verb come into possession of; achieve
  • verb fall victim to
  • verb seize
  • verb come to be
  • verb understand
  • verb arrive
  • verb contact for communication
  • verb arrange, manage desired goal
  • verb convince, induce
  • verb have an effect on
  • verb produce offspring
  • verb irritate, upset
Example sentences :
  • Deary me, but ye've gat all sorts of sons though you've nobbut two.
  • Extract from : « The Shadow of a Crime » by Hall Caine
  • “I marvel if he ever gat into debt,” observed Clare quietly from the other side of Jack.
  • Extract from : « Clare Avery » by Emily Sarah Holt
  • Be sure your weapon—I told you to bring a gat—is on your person.
  • Extract from : « The Infra-Medians » by Sewell Peaslee Wright
  • The Swedish form is gatlopp, in which gat is cognate with Eng.
  • Extract from : « The Romance of Words (4th ed.) » by Ernest Weekley
  • In that event, if he attempted violence, I should use my pistol—my 'gat'—and stop him.
  • Extract from : « The Dude Wrangler » by Caroline Lockhart
  • So we gat not back to our sad talk, but all ended with mirth.
  • Extract from : « Joyce Morrell's Harvest » by Emily Sarah Holt
  • I said so unto him at after, but all I gat of my noble admiral was “Avast there!”
  • Extract from : « Joyce Morrell's Harvest » by Emily Sarah Holt
  • So in the shaw we gat us; as I have told thee, it is at the back of our houses but a furlong off.
  • Extract from : « The Sundering Flood » by William Morris
  • Such an overthrow they gat, that they might not draw to a head again.
  • Extract from : « The Sundering Flood » by William Morris
  • This she did three times, while Osberne gat his anlace bare in his hand.
  • Extract from : « The Sundering Flood » by William Morris

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