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Goar

Goar \Goar\, n. Same as 1st Gore.

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goar

n. (obsolete form of lang=en gore nodot=1) (gloss: dirt, mud).

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Goar

Goar (born before 390, died between 446 and 450) was a leader of the Alans in 5th-century Gaul. He led his followers over the Rhine during the multi-tribe invasion of Gaul in 406, but quickly joined the Romans, and subsequently played a role in the internal politics of Gaul.

Usage examples of "goar".

On the third morning, Goar announced, "We are near ing Port Balifor," though neither Woodrow nor Tas saw any sign of land.

The cook rolled the barrel over the gunwale and Goar deposited Tas,' and then Woodrow, into the pitching, bobbing tub.

Before Constantine resigned the purple, and in the fourth month of the siege of Arles, intelligence was received in the Imperial camp, that Jovinus has assumed the diadem at Mentz, in the Upper Germany, at the instigation of Goar, king of the Alani, and of Guntiarius, king of the Burgundians.

Perhaps his murder would trigger a sequence of events that would accomplish his goal here, whatever that goar might be.