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  • English Word Gantlet Definition A glove. See Gauntlet.
  • English Word Gantline Definition A line rigged to a mast; -- used in hoisting rigging; a girtline.
  • English Word Gantlope Definition See Gantlet.
  • English Word Gantry Definition See Gauntree.
  • English Word Ganza Definition A kind of wild goose, by a flock of which a virtuoso was fabled to be carried to the lunar world.
  • English Word Gaol Definition A place of confinement, especially for minor offenses or provisional imprisonment; a jail.
  • English Word Gaoler Definition The keeper of a jail. See Jailer.
  • English Word Gap Definition An opening in anything made by breaking or parting; as, a gap in a fence; an opening for a passage or entrance; an opening which implies a breach or defect; a vacant space or time; a hiatus; a mountain pass.
  • English Word Gap Definition To notch, as a sword or knife.
  • English Word Gap Definition To make an opening in; to breach.
  • English Word Gap-toothed Definition Having interstices between the teeth.
  • English Word Gape Definition To open the mouth wide
  • English Word Gape Definition Expressing a desire for food; as, young birds gape.
  • English Word Gape Definition Indicating sleepiness or indifference; to yawn.
  • English Word Gape Definition To pen or part widely; to exhibit a gap, fissure, or hiatus.
  • English Word Gape Definition To long, wait eagerly, or cry aloud for something; -- with for, after, or at.
  • English Word Gape Definition The act of gaping; a yawn.
  • English Word Gape Definition The width of the mouth when opened, as of birds, fishes, etc.
  • English Word Gaped Definition of Gape
  • English Word Gaper Definition One who gapes.
  • English Word Gaper Definition A European fish. See 4th Comber.
  • English Word Gaper Definition A large edible clam (Schizothaerus Nuttalli), of the Pacific coast; -- called also gaper clam.
  • English Word Gaper Definition An East Indian bird of the genus Cymbirhynchus, related to the broadbills.
  • English Word Gapeseed Definition Any strange sight.
  • English Word Gapesing Definition Act of gazing about; sightseeing.
  • English Word Gapeworm Definition The parasitic worm that causes the gapes in birds. See Illustration in Appendix.
  • English Word Gaping Definition of Gape
  • English Word Gapingstock Definition One who is an object of open-mouthed wonder.
  • English Word Gar Definition Any slender marine fish of the genera Belone and Tylosurus. See Garfish.
  • English Word Gar Definition The gar pike. See Alligator gar (under Alligator), and Gar pike.