English

Alternative forms

• sarten

Adjective

sartin

1. Eye dialect spelling of certain.
   • 1841, Various, Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 1, July 17, 1841:

     If the marrow in one's backbone should melt, it would be sartin to run out at the tip of one's tail.

   • 1895, Frederick Marryat, Peter Simple and The Three Cutters, Vol. 1-2:

     "Why do you say so?" replied I. "Because I think, nay, I may say that I'm sartin, we'll have a hurricane afore morning."

   • 1910, Edward Marshall and Charles T. Dazey, In Old Kentucky:

     This here's a mountain fireplace, sartin sure.

Anagrams

• instar, strain, trains