Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A member of an ancient Germanic people of southern Sweden conquered by the Swedes in the sixth century AD.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete spelling of
jet . - noun See
get , 2. - noun The hole through which metal runs into a mold in castings.
- noun In type-founding, the little spout or gutter made in the “brim of a casting-ladle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Founding) The channel or spout through which molten metal runs into a mold in casting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun history A member of a North Germanic tribe formerly occupying modern Götaland in Sweden.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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It's not, as I say, * too* risible; it's just that you kinda keep expecting Beowulf to drag some hapless Geat out of a drunken stupor and shout, GET YER TROUSERS ON, SONNY BOY!
I Am Beowulf! You're Going Daaaaahn! Hal Duncan 2007
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Beowulf the Geat (Ray Winstone), whose greatest skill is masculine posturing, soon arrives to slay the monster.
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Beowulf the Geat (Ray Winstone), whose greatest skill is masculine posturing, soon arrives to slay the monster.
Archive 2007-11-01 2007
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It's not, as I say, * too* risible; it's just that you kinda keep expecting Beowulf to drag some hapless Geat out of a drunken stupor and shout, GET YER TROUSERS ON, SONNY BOY!
Archive 2007-11-01 Hal Duncan 2007
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Geat Neil, and when your kid dies of cystic fibrosis at 8 years old when he could have been saved by stem cell therapy (we would have a 6 year head start with government support by now) I hope you take great solice in your words – as you bury your son.
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Geat Neil, and when your kid dies of cystic fibrosis at 8 years old when he could have been saved by stem cell therapy (we would have a 6 year head start with government support by now) I hope you take great solice in your words – as you bury your son.
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Geat article, Georgianne! by Sandy Jewell on Thursday, Jan 24, 2008 at 2: 54: 26 PM
Elie Wiesel: Please Help Us Write about Gaza and Israel 2008
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Geat comment by Steve Windisch (jibbguy) on Monday, Apr 14, 2008 at 6: 08: 43 PM xxx by Tony Forest on Monday, Apr 14, 2008 at 3: 37: 04 PM
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Geat movie. i wish i had figured out that it was a tearjerker. i hate those kind of movies. very profound, it made u tear up.
Will Smith's Seven Pounds Gets a Trailer, Too « FirstShowing.net 2008
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GayandRight: Geat ready for some more insults to muslims...
Geat ready for some more insults to muslims... GayandRight 2007
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