Definition of "gat" []

• A narrow passage extending inland from a shore; a channel. (noun)
• Slang A pistol. (noun)
• Archaic A past tense of get. (verb)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Colin says, nevertheless, that the Chiefs used the title gat or lakan, and the women dayang."
• "I'm still laughin gat what someone wrote here, my favorite line .. ". .if you put her brain in a bird, it would fly backwards.""
• "Now it chanced that in the marketplace his eye lit on a certain fine boy whom he knew could not be of the country, & asking him his name gat for answer that he was called Olaf and his father Tryggvi Olafson and his mother Astrid, the daughter of Eirik Biodaskalli."