gast

American  

[gast] / gæst /

verb (used with object)

Obsolete.

1. to terrify or frighten.

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Etymology

Origin of gast

before 1000; Middle English gasten, Old English gǣstan

Example Sentences

"Let go, dod gast you!" he bellowed, jerking the lasso out of the professor's hands, while the albatross went flapping off, a long streamer of rope hanging from its neck.

From The Boy Aviators' Polar Dash or Facing Death in the Antarctic by Goldfrap, John Henry

Note also the characteristic long a; as in swa for swo, so; gast, ghost; fra, fro; faas, foes.

From English Dialects From the Eighth Century to the Present Day by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)

And h� mid �isum wordum ageaf his gast.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

And se engel �a �teowde �am folce �one awyrigedan gast on �yssere gelicnysse.

From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Aelfric, Abbot of Eynsham

De lady make welcome her gast in,     Ash he shtep to de dop of de shtair, She look like an angel got lost in     A forest of audumn-prown hair.

From The Breitmann Ballads by Leland, Charles Godfrey