单词 | gaiter |
释义 | gaitern.1 1. A covering of cloth, leather, etc. for the ankle, or ankle and lower leg. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > [noun] > gaiter or legging huseau1464 gamashin1616 moggan1754 guetre1772 gaiter1775 vamplet1842 1775 F. Marion in Harper's Mag. Sept. (1883) 546/1 Black half-gaiters. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. Gaiters, a sort of spatterdashes, usually made of cloth, and are either long, as reaching to the knee, or short as only reaching just above the ancle; the latter are termed half-gaiters. 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 119 Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their gait. 1836 C. Dickens Pickwick Papers (1837) xii. 119 Mr. Weller was furnished with..light breeches and gaiters. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. v. 35 Thick leather gaiters. 1880 Plain Knitting 19 Gaiters (i.e. legs of stockings without feet)..are very useful to those who are obliged to walk out in all weathers. 1886 H. Caine Son of Hagar ii. xvi Parson Christian stood near her in silk gaiters. 2. U.S. (See quots.) ΚΠ 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Gaiter, 2 a kind of shoe, consisting chiefly of cloth, and covering the ankle. 1889 Cent. Dict. Gaiter, Now, also, a shoe of similar form, with or without cloth, generally with an insertion of elastic on each side. Compounds C1. attributive and in other combinations, as gaiter-maker, gaiter-strap. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > [noun] > gaiter or legging > parts of gaiter-strap1858 1858 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. ix. x. 498 From big guns and wagon-horses down to gun-flints and gaiter-straps. 1894 Daily News 29 Dec. 3/6 Her husband was a gaiter maker. C2. gaiter-boot n. = sense 2. ΚΠ 1840 Daily Picayune (New Orleans) 30 July 2/4 Many of the ladies of Philadelphia..now wear..gaiter boots, with little straps of black leather. 1875 H. B. Stowe We & our Neighbors x. 106 Looking as if they never had heard of a French hat or a pair of gaiter-boots. 1932 ‘A. Bridge’ Peking Picnic x. 111 Blue trousers tucked into high white gaiter boots. gaiter-shoe originally U.S. = sense 2. ΚΠ 1849 N. P. Willis Rural Lett. 230 Dandies strolling and stealing an occasional look at their loose demi-saison pantaloons and gaiter-shoes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). gaitern.2 Obsolete exc. dialect. A name properly belonging to the Dogwood ( Cornus sanguinea), but in various districts applied to other similar shrubs, as the Spindle-tree ( Euonymus europæus). Also attributive in gaiter-berry, gaiter-bush, gaiter-tree. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > cornus (dogwood and allies) > [noun] gaiterc1000 dog-tree1548 cornel1551 dogberry1551 prick tree1551 hound's-berry1578 hound's-tree1578 prick-timber tree1578 dwarf honeysuckle1597 dogwood1598 sanguine-rod1601 prickwood1691 bloody twig1759 rose willow1798 red osier1807 swamp dogwood1817 stone-berry?1838 bunch-berry1845 cornus1846 silky cornel1848 silky dogwood1900 pagoda tree1978 the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > cultivated or ornamental trees and shrubs > [noun] > spindle-tree(s) prickwood1516 spindle-tree1548 prick-timber1578 prickle tree1607 prick tree1671 spindle1712 spindlekin1714 euonymus1767 skewer wood1782 gaiter1796 dogwood1838 spindle-trees1846 louse-berry1866 skewer tree1894 c1000 Saxon Leechd. II. 86 Wiþ þære adl þe mon hæt circul adl, genim..gatetreow..wyl on wætre swiþe. c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 145 Laxatyues..Of catapuce, or of gaitrys [v.rr. gaytres, gaytrys, gattris, gaytre] beryis. 1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. C.v Cornus... The female is plentuous in Englande & the buchers make prickes of it, some cal it Gadrise or dog tree. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. li. 725 Dogge berie or Gatten tree. 1597 J. Gerard Herball iii. 1283 In the North countrey they call it Gaten tree, or Gater tree. 1660 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Cantabrigiam 39 Cornus fœmina..Dogberry or Gatter tree. 1691 J. Ray S. & E. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 99 Gatteridge-tree is Cornus fœmina, or Prickwood, and yet Gatteridge-berries are the Fruit of Euonymus Theofrasti, i.e. Spindle-tree or Louse-berry. 1692 Coles's Eng. Dict. (new ed.) Gaiter-berries, of the Gaiter-tree, prickwood. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 200 Cornus sanguinea..Gatten tree. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 259 Evonymus europæus..Gatteridge Tree. 1819 G. Crabbe Tales of Hall I. vii. 138 Dwarf trees and humbler shrubs..Haw, Gatter, Holm, the Service and the Sloe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online September 2021). gaiterv. transitive. To dress or furnish with gaiters. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > covering for legs (and feet) hosec1300 stock1430 strapple1607 stocking1755 gaiter1760 sock1897 1760 Proc. Court-martial Ld. G. Sackville 11 The Cavalry must be saddled; the Artillery-Horses harnessed, and the Infantry gatered. 1848 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Gaiter, to dress with gaiters. Derivatives ˈgaitered adj. ΚΠ 1852 F. E. Smedley Lewis Arundel xxviii. 230 A leather-gaitered and corduroyed Christian. 1892 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Sept. 6/2 The cocked-hatted and gaitered troops of the First Republic. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11775n.2c1000v.1760 |
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