GARTER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does garter mean? 

• GARTER (noun)
  The noun GARTER has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: GARTER used as a noun is very rare.

• GARTER (verb)
  The verb GARTER has 1 sense:

1. fasten with or as if with a garter

  Familiarity information: GARTER used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GARTER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

garter; supporter

Hypernyms ("garter" is a kind of...):

band (a thin flat strip of flexible material that is worn around the body or one of the limbs (especially to decorate the body))

Derivation:

garter (fasten with or as if with a garter)

• GARTER (verb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Fasten with or as if with a garter

Classified under:

Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging

Hypernyms (to "garter" is one way to...):

fasten; fix; secure (cause to be firmly attached)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s something

Derivation:

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

 Context examples 

"Miss Abbot, lend me your garters; she would break mine directly."

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Every letter from her is read forty times over; her compliments to all friends go round and round again; and if she does but send her aunt the pattern of a stomacher, or knit a pair of garters for her grandmother, one hears of nothing else for a month.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Here also were the valiant Earl of Angus, Sir Thomas Banaster with his garter over his greave, Sir Nele Loring, second cousin to Sir Nigel, and a long column of Welsh footmen who marched under the red banner of Merlin.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)