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Any of a group of primitive bony fishes, which also includes sturgeons. Gar have long, beaklike snouts and elongated bodies covered in heavy, bony scales. All four species of gar live in freshwater rivers and lakes of the Mississippi drainage. See also needlefish. (Order Semionotiformes.)



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Where did’ee ever fall in with a regular built vessel, with starn-post and cutwater, gar board-streak and plank- shear, gangways, and hatchways, and waterways, quarter-deck, and forecastle, ay, and flush-deck?
The Pioneers by Cooper, James Fenimore View in context
" cried the bowman, passing his fingers through his curls, "you were not far from the feather-bed then, mon gar.
The White Company by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context
He had approached them as a beg- gar, it is true, he said; but in his country, even if they gave nothing, they spoke gently to beggars.
Amy Foster by Conrad, Joseph View in context
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