Thesaurus: gar

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1. v. Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish.
2. v. The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under Alligator), and Gar pike.
3. n. To cause; to make.
4. n. primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth
5. n. elongate European surface-dwelling predacious fishes with long toothed jaws; abundant in coastal waters
6. (a) Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish. (b) The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under Alligator), and Gar pike. Gar pike, or Garpike (Zoöl.), a large, elongated ganoid fish of the genus Lepidosteus, of several species, inhabiting the lakes and rivers of temperate and tropical America. To cause; to make. [Obs. or Scot.] Spenser.
7. To cause; to make. [Obs. or Scot.] Spenser.
8. n:100 n. primitive predaceous North American fish covered with hard scales and having long jaws with needlelike teeth