gast
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 5
- Words With Friends
- 6
- Letters
- 4
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Definition of gast
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(obsolete)To frighten.
“[H]ee charges home my vnprouided body, lancht mine arme, but when he ſaw my beſt alarumd ſpirits, bould in the quarrels, rights, rouſd to the encounter, or whether gaſted by the noyſe I made, but ſodainly he fled.”
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verb
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(obsolete)To frighten.
“[H]ee charges home my vnprouided body, lancht mine arme, but when he ſaw my beſt alarumd ſpirits, bould in the quarrels, rights, rouſd to the encounter, or whether gaſted by the noyſe I made, but ſodainly he fled.”
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English gasten, from Old English gǣstan, from Proto-Germanic *gaistijaną. Also spelled ghast due to association with ghost.
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