Found 2 items, similar to GAN.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: gan
gan
See
gin
[also:
ganning,
ganned]
gin
n 1: strong liquor flavored with juniper berries
2: a trap for birds or small mammals; often has a noose [syn:
snare,
noose]
3: a machine that separates the seeds from raw cotton fibers
[syn:
cotton gin]
4: a form of rummy in which a player can go out if the cards
remaining in their hand total less than 10 points [syn:
gin rummy
,
knock rummy]
[also:
ginning,
ginned,
gan]
gin
v 1: separate the seeds from (cotton) with a cotton gin
2: trap with a snare;
“gin game”
[also:
ginning,
ginned,
gan]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Gan
Gan
\Gan\, imp. of
Gin. [See
Gin, v.]
Began; commenced.
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Note: Gan was formerly used with the infinitive to form
compound imperfects, as did is now employed. Gan
regularly denotes the singular; the plural is usually
denoted by gunne or gonne.
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This man gan fall (i.e., fell) in great
suspicion. --Chaucer.
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The little coines to their play gunne hie (i. e.,
hied). --Chaucer.
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Note: Later writers use gan both for singular and plural.
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Yet at her speech their rages gan relent.
--Spenser.
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Gin
\Gin\ (g[i^]n), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Gan (g[a^]n),
Gon
(g[o^]n), or
Gun (g[u^]n); p. pr. & vb. n.
Ginning.] [OE.
ginnen, AS. ginnan (in comp.), prob. orig., to open, cut
open, cf. OHG. inginnan to begin, open, cut open, and prob.
akin to AS. g[=i]nan to yawn, and E. yawn. [root]31. See
Yawn, v. i., and cf.
Begin.]
To begin; -- often followed by an infinitive without to; as,
gan tell. See
Gan. [Obs. or Archaic]
“He gan to pray.”
--Chaucer.
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