atgar
atgar · atgars
A kind of spear or lance formerly in useA kind of spear or lance formerly in use.
Meaning
1 sensesA kind of spear or lance formerly in use.
Origin
Learned borrowing from Old English ætgār (“a short spear, dart, javelin, a kind of dart orLearned borrowing from Old English ætgār (“a short spear, dart, javelin, a kind of dart or other weapon to cast at the enemy”), from Proto-West Germanic *atgaiʀ, from Proto-Germanic *atgaizaz; equivalent to at- + gar (“spear”). Cognate with Old Frisian etgēr, Old High German azgēr, azigēr, Icelandic atgeir (“spear”).
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