A variant or dialectal form potentially related to a type of fish, measurement, or regional term of uncertain modern usage.
Possibly derived from Old Norse or Middle English sources; the exact etymology is obscure and this word appears primarily in historical or specialized dictionaries.
Some words are so old and regionally specific that even expert lexicographers aren't sure what they originally meant—gareh is probably a word frozen in time from a language we can barely reconstruct!
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