garter

From Middle English garter, from Old Northern French gartier, from Old French garet (compare Old French jartier, from jaret), from Gaulish *garrā, from Proto-Celtic *garros (“calf, shank”) (compare Cornish gar, Cornish gar,Middle Welsh garr, Old Irish gairr). Cognate with French jarretière.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːtə/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈɡɑːɹtɚ/
• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)tə(ɹ)

garter (plural garters)

1. A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.
2. (heraldry) A bendlet.

   Coordinate terms: bendlet, cost, riband

garter (third-person singular simple present garters, present participle gartering, simple past and past participle gartered)

1. to fasten with a garter

• Trager, garret, grater

• gartere, gartier, gertier

Borrowed from Old French gartier.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɡartər/, /ɡarˈteːr/

garter (plural garters)

1. garter

• English: garter
• Yola: ghurteare, gurteare

• “garter, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.