garter

Meanings

Noun

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

Verb

• to fasten with a garter

Origin

• 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.