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2  [gahr]
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–verb (used with object), garred, gar⋅ring.
1. Scot. to compel or force (someone) to do something.
2. Scot. and North England Obsolete. to do, perform, or cause.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME geren, garren, gairen < ON gera to do, make; akin to OE gearwian to prepare
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gar 2   (gär)   
tr.v.   garred, gar·ring, gars Scots
To cause or compel.

[Middle English geren, from Old Norse gera, to make.]
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Word Origin & History

gar 
"pike-like fish," 1765, Amer.Eng., shortening of garfish (c.1440), from O.E. gar "spear," from P.Gmc. *gaizo- (cf. O.N. geirr, O.H.G. ger, Ger. Ger "spear").
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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