GARTER

garter, supporter

(noun) a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve)

garter

(verb) fasten with or as if with a garter

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

garter (plural garters)

A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.

(heraldry) A bendlet.

Verb

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

to fasten with a garter

Anagrams

• Trager, garret, grater

Source: Wiktionary

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Gar"ter, n. Etym: [OE. gartier, F. jarretière, fr. OF. garet bend of the knee, F. jarret; akin to Sp. garra claw, Prov. garra leg. See Garrote.]

1. A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.

2. The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself.

3. (Her.)

Definition: Same as Bendlet. Garter fish (Zoöl.), a fish of the genus Lepidopus, having a long, flat body, like the blade of a sword; the scabbard fish.

– Garter king-at-arms, the chief of the official heralds of England, king-at-arms to the Order of the Garter; -- often abbreviated to Garter.

– Garter snake (Zoöl.), one of several harmless American snakes of the genus Eutænia, of several species (esp. E. saurita and E. sirtalis); one of the striped snakes; -- so called from its conspicuous stripes of color.

Gar"ter, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Gartered; p. pr. & vb. n. Gartering.]

1. To bind with a garter. He . . . could not see to garter his hose. Shak.

2. To invest with the Order of the Garter. T. Warton.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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