Both Uses of
gist
in
1776, by McCullough
- Then, he and Major Mordecai Gist and no more than 250 Marylanders attacked Cornwallis in a headlong, valiant effort to cover the retreat of the others and perhaps even break through the redcoats who had established their line on the Gowanus Road beside a stone farmhouse.†
p. 177.3 *
- The morning after, Mordecai Gist and nine others crossed into the camps.†
p. 182.5
Definitions:
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(1)
(gist) the main point(s) of a more detailed matter
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
In law, gist can refer to grounds for a legal action.