garretn.¹

/ˈɡarɪt/

Forms: Middle English garite, garyte, Middle English garytte, Middle English–1500s garett(e, (Middle English garet, gerret), 1500s garrette, gar(r)it, 1500s–1700s garrat, 1500s– garret.

Etymology: < Old French garite, guerite, watchtower (modern French guérite watchtower, sentry-box, refuge) = Spanish garita (? from French), Portuguese guarita; of Germanic origin, connected with Old French guarir, warir, to preserve, guard, cure (modern French guérir to cure), < Germanic *warjan to defend, pro-tect; the precise formation of the noun has not been satisfactorily explained.

†1. A turret projecting from the top of a tower or from the parapet of a fortification; a watchtower. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > look-out place

garret1340

tooting-towera1382

watch-house1482

watchtower1544

watch-stand1610

beacon1611

mount1612

belfry1631

lookout1662

mirador1672

lookout tower1748

toot1770

watch point1893

observation post1909

lookout station1928

society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > turrets or pinnacles

pinnaclec1330

garret1340

filiolec1400

pricket1534

tower-work1653

pinnet1805

pinnaclet1905

1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 9101 Þe garettes oboven þe yhates bryght Of þe ceté of heven, I lyken þus ryght, Tylle þe garettes of a ceté of gold.

a1400 Sir Beues (A.) 1658 He be-held forþer a lite To a chaunber vnder a garite.

?a1400 Morte Arth. 562 There salle appone Godarde a garette be rerede.

a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 88 She putte her in a garet to see the Kinge Josue passe.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 112 Garrits and watch houses, where the..Sentinels are to be placed.

2. A room on the uppermost floor of a house; an apartment formed either partially or wholly within the roof, an attic. from cellar to garret, from garret to kitchen, etc.: over the whole house.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room by situation > [noun] > upper room or loft

sollarc897

roostOE

loftc1385

cellara1400

roofc1405

garret1483

solier1483

hall of stage1485

coploft1571

cockloftc1580

tallet1586

cotloft1642

chamber1644

kitchen loft1648

vance-roof1655

sky-parlour1777

attic1818

soleret1851

overhead1949

dormer room1951

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > [adverb] > throughout the house

but and benc1375

from garret to kitchen1712

from cellar to garret1828

1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton H v b What shold auaylle..a garette ful of whete or a celer ful of wyn.

1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 43 In Countreys that are very wette and watrishe, it is better to make them [sc. corn lofts] in Garrettes as hie as may be.

1625 F. Bacon Apophthegmes xvii, in Wks. (1859) VII. 180 My Lord St. Alban said that wise Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high: and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.

1645 J. Milton Colasterion 19 This is not for an unbutton'd fellow to discuss in the Garret, at his tressle.

1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 24 Two Stories high, besides Cellars and Garrats.

1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. viii. 35 John Bull..ran up Stairs and down Stairs, from the Kitchen to the Garrets, and from the Garrets to the Kitchen.

1714 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. c24 Sept. (1965) I. 226 If it was possible to restore Liberty to your Country..by reduceing your selfe to a Garret, I should be pleas'd to share so glorious a poverty with you.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 219 The..lodging-house, where the poet Codrus, and his wife, were permitted to hire a wretched garret immediately under the tiles.

1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 302 The news of his arrival circulated from the cellar to the garret.

1849 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 80 I was through all our house yesterday, from garret to kitchen.

1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. v. 211 His [Johnson's] happiest effort is a dissertation upon the advantage of living in garrets.

figurative.1813 H. Smith & J. Smith Horace in London ii. vii. 132 We'll talk of our gambols..Till Phœbus looks out of his garret.

3. slang.

a. The head; esp. in phrases to be wrong in one's garret, to have one's garret unfurnished, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun]

nolleOE

headOE

topa1225

copc1264

scalpa1300

chiefc1330

crownc1330

jowla1400

poll?a1400

testea1400

ball in the hoodc1400

palleta1425

noddle?1507

costard?1515

nab?1536

neck1560

coxcomb1567

sconce1567

now1568

headpiece1579

mazer1581

mazardc1595

cockcomb1602

costrel1604

cranion1611

pasha1616

noddle pate1622

block1635

cranium1647

sallet1652

poundrel1664

nob1699

crany?1730

knowledge box1755

noodle1762

noggin1769

napper1785

garret1796

pimple1811

knowledge-casket1822

coco1828

cobbra1832

coconut1834

top-piece1838

nut1841

barnet1857

twopenny1859

chump1864

topknot1869

conk1870

masthead1884

filbert1886

bonce1889

crumpet1891

dome1891

roof1897

beanc1905

belfry1907

hat rack1907

melon1907

box1908

lemon1923

loaf1925

pound1933

sconec1945

nana1966

1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Garret, or Upper Story, the head. His garret, or upper story, is empty, or unfurnished; i.e. he has no brains, he is a fool.

1840 R. H. Barham Bagman's Dog in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 335 What's called ‘The Claret’ Flew over the garret.

1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale (at cited word) To be wrang in yan's Garrets, to be wanting in intellect, or suffering from temporary delirium.

b. (See quot. 1819.)

ΚΠ

1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 177 Garret, the fob-pocket.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

garret chamber n.

ΚΠ

1657 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. VII. 39/2 John Norman is to build an house for them..with..one garret chamber.

1889 R. T. Cooke Steadfast ii. 27 She crept upstairs to the ‘garret-chamber’ where she slept.

garret-poverty n.

ΚΠ

17.. Addit. to Pope (1776) I. 117 Again my garret poverty is shown By the mean cov'ring of this Portland stone.

garret-room n.

ΚΠ

1671 J. Davies Sibylls i. viii. 23 There may be some brain which hath garret-room to receive it.

1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxiv. 66 It was a bare garret-room.

garret-stairs n.

ΚΠ

1688 S. Sewall Diary I. 241 I thought of Mr. Oakes's Dream about Mr. Shepard and Mitchell beckening him up the Garret-Stairs in Harvard College.

1859 W. Collins Queen of Hearts I. 203 My aunt came hastily up the garret-stairs.

garret-story n.

ΚΠ

1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 1 Most of them have now what the country-people call a loft; i.e. a garret-story.

garret-window n.

ΚΠ

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Lucarne, a garret window, or window in the roofe of a house, etc.

garret-high adj.

ΚΠ

1684 J. Dryden Prol. to Play call'd Disappointment He hires some Homely Room, Love's Fruits to gather, And, Garret-high, Rebels against his Father.

garret-wise adv.

ΚΠ

1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. II. 531 The rooms on the second floor are still arranged garret-wise.

C2.

garret-lock n. (see quot.).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > lock > other types of lock

inlock1488

treble lock1680

French lock1787

ringlock1789

thumb-lock1801

bar-lock1828

permutation lock1835

check-lock1850

pin lock1851

time lock1858

garret-lock1860

dead lock1866

seal-lock1871

dead-latch1874

Bramah-lock1875

cylinder lock1878

police lock1910

ziplock1956

solenoid lock1976

D-lock1990

1860–4 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Garret-lock, the term applied to locks of the most inferior description, because they are made by men of small means who live and work in garrets.

garret-master n. a cabinet-maker, lock-smith, etc. who works on his own account, selling his manufacture to the dealers direct (cf. chamber-master n.).

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker > skilled worker or craftsman > expert > working on own account or employing others

masterc1300

upsetter1518

craftsmaster1579

master workman1670

garret-master1851

master craftsman1865

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 376/2 In the shoe trade,..they are called ‘chamber-masters’, in the ‘cabinet trade’ they are termed ‘garret-masters’.

1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 223/2 These garret-masters are a class of small ‘trade-working masters’, supplying both capital and labour.

1894 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 2/3 Complaints made by the local Locksmith's Trades Union, as to the sub~letting of Navy contracts to garret-masters not under factory inspection.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	garret
释义	garretn.¹ /ˈɡarɪt/ Forms: Middle English garite, garyte, Middle English garytte, Middle English–1500s garett(e, (Middle English garet, gerret), 1500s garrette, gar(r)it, 1500s–1700s garrat, 1500s– garret. Etymology: < Old French garite, guerite, watchtower (modern French guérite watchtower, sentry-box, refuge) = Spanish garita (? from French), Portuguese guarita; of Germanic origin, connected with Old French guarir, warir, to preserve, guard, cure (modern French guérir to cure), < Germanic warjan to defend, pro-tect; the precise formation of the noun has not been satisfactorily explained. †1. A turret projecting from the top of a tower or from the parapet of a fortification; a watchtower. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > look-out place garret1340 tooting-towera1382 watch-house1482 watchtower1544 watch-stand1610 beacon1611 mount1612 belfry1631 lookout1662 mirador1672 lookout tower1748 toot1770 watch point1893 observation post1909 lookout station1928 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > turrets or pinnacles pinnaclec1330 garret1340 filiolec1400 pricket1534 tower-work1653 pinnet1805 pinnaclet1905 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience* 9101 Þe garettes oboven þe yhates bryght Of þe ceté of heven, I lyken þus ryght, Tylle þe garettes of a ceté of gold. a1400 Sir Beues (A.) 1658 He be-held forþer a lite To a chaunber vnder a garite. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 562 There salle appone Godarde a garette be rerede. a1450 Knt. de la Tour (1868) 88 She putte her in a garet to see the Kinge Josue passe. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 112 Garrits and watch houses, where the..Sentinels are to be placed. 2. A room on the uppermost floor of a house; an apartment formed either partially or wholly within the roof, an attic. from cellar to garret, from garret to kitchen, etc.: over the whole house. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room by situation > [noun] > upper room or loft sollarc897 roostOE loftc1385 cellara1400 roofc1405 garret1483 solier1483 hall of stage1485 coploft1571 cockloftc1580 tallet1586 cotloft1642 chamber1644 kitchen loft1648 vance-roof1655 sky-parlour1777 attic1818 soleret1851 overhead1949 dormer room1951 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > [adverb] > throughout the house but and benc1375 from garret to kitchen1712 from cellar to garret1828 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton H v b What shold auaylle..a garette ful of whete or a celer ful of wyn. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 43 In Countreys that are very wette and watrishe, it is better to make them [sc. corn lofts] in Garrettes as hie as may be. 1625 F. Bacon Apophthegmes xvii, in Wks. (1859) VII. 180 My Lord St. Alban said that wise Nature did never put her precious jewels into a garret four stories high: and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads. 1645 J. Milton Colasterion 19 This is not for an unbutton'd fellow to discuss in the Garret, at his tressle. 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 24 Two Stories high, besides Cellars and Garrats. 1712 J. Arbuthnot Lewis Baboon iv. viii. 35 John Bull..ran up Stairs and down Stairs, from the Kitchen to the Garrets, and from the Garrets to the Kitchen. 1714 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. c24 Sept. (1965) I. 226 If it was possible to restore Liberty to your Country..by reduceing your selfe to a Garret, I should be pleas'd to share so glorious a poverty with you. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 219 The..lodging-house, where the poet Codrus, and his wife, were permitted to hire a wretched garret immediately under the tiles. 1828 T. Carlyle Burns in Edinb. Rev. Dec. 302 The news of his arrival circulated from the cellar to the garret. 1849 J. W. Carlyle Lett. II. 80 I was through all our house yesterday, from garret to kitchen. 1876 L. Stephen Hours in Libr. 2nd Ser. v. 211 His [Johnson's] happiest effort is a dissertation upon the advantage of living in garrets. figurative.1813 H. Smith & J. Smith Horace in London ii. vii. 132 We'll talk of our gambols..Till Phœbus looks out of his garret. 3. slang. a. The head; esp. in phrases to be wrong in one's garret, to have one's garret unfurnished, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > [noun] nolleOE headOE topa1225 copc1264 scalpa1300 chiefc1330 crownc1330 jowla1400 poll?a1400 testea1400 ball in the hoodc1400 palleta1425 noddle?1507 costard?1515 nab?1536 neck1560 coxcomb1567 sconce1567 now1568 headpiece1579 mazer1581 mazardc1595 cockcomb1602 costrel1604 cranion1611 pasha1616 noddle pate1622 block1635 cranium1647 sallet1652 poundrel1664 nob1699 crany?1730 knowledge box1755 noodle1762 noggin1769 napper1785 garret1796 pimple1811 knowledge-casket1822 coco1828 cobbra1832 coconut1834 top-piece1838 nut1841 barnet1857 twopenny1859 chump1864 topknot1869 conk1870 masthead1884 filbert1886 bonce1889 crumpet1891 dome1891 roof1897 beanc1905 belfry1907 hat rack1907 melon1907 box1908 lemon1923 loaf1925 pound1933 sconec1945 nana1966 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Garret, or Upper Story, the head. His garret, or upper story, is empty, or unfurnished; i.e. he has no brains, he is a fool. 1840 R. H. Barham Bagman's Dog in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 335 What's called ‘The Claret’ Flew over the garret. 1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale (at cited word) To be wrang in yan's Garrets, to be wanting in intellect, or suffering from temporary delirium. b. (See quot. 1819.) ΚΠ 1819 J. H. Vaux New Vocab. Flash Lang. in Memoirs II. 177 Garret, the fob-pocket. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. garret chamber n. ΚΠ 1657 in Essex Inst. Hist. Coll. VII. 39/2 John Norman is to build an house for them..with..one garret chamber. 1889 R. T. Cooke Steadfast ii. 27 She crept upstairs to the ‘garret-chamber’ where she slept. garret-poverty n. ΚΠ 17.. Addit. to Pope (1776) I. 117 Again my garret poverty is shown By the mean cov'ring of this Portland stone. garret-room n. ΚΠ 1671 J. Davies Sibylls i. viii. 23 There may be some brain which hath garret-room to receive it. 1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist II. xxiv. 66 It was a bare garret-room. garret-stairs n. ΚΠ 1688 S. Sewall Diary I. 241 I thought of Mr. Oakes's Dream about Mr. Shepard and Mitchell beckening him up the Garret-Stairs in Harvard College. 1859 W. Collins Queen of Hearts I. 203 My aunt came hastily up the garret-stairs. garret-story n. ΚΠ 1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 1 Most of them have now what the country-people call a loft; i.e. a garret-story. garret-window n. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Lucarne, a garret window, or window in the roofe of a house, etc. b. garret-high adj. ΚΠ 1684 J. Dryden Prol. to Play call'd Disappointment He hires some Homely Room, Love's Fruits to gather, And, Garret-high, Rebels against his Father. c. garret-wise adv. ΚΠ 1886 R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. II. 531 The rooms on the second floor are still arranged garret-wise. C2. garret-lock n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > lock > other types of lock inlock1488 treble lock1680 French lock1787 ringlock1789 thumb-lock1801 bar-lock1828 permutation lock1835 check-lock1850 pin lock1851 time lock1858 garret-lock1860 dead lock1866 seal-lock1871 dead-latch1874 Bramah-lock1875 cylinder lock1878 police lock1910 ziplock1956 solenoid lock1976 D-lock1990 1860–4 Dict. Archit. (Archit. Publ. Soc.) Garret-lock, the term applied to locks of the most inferior description, because they are made by men of small means who live and work in garrets. garret-master n. a cabinet-maker, lock-smith, etc. who works on his own account, selling his manufacture to the dealers direct (cf. chamber-master n.). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > [noun] > manual worker > skilled worker or craftsman > expert > working on own account or employing others masterc1300 upsetter1518 craftsmaster1579 master workman1670 garret-master1851 master craftsman1865 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour II. 376/2 In the shoe trade,..they are called ‘chamber-masters’, in the ‘cabinet trade’ they are termed ‘garret-masters’. 1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 223/2 These garret-masters are a class of small ‘trade-working masters’, supplying both capital and labour. 1894 Westm. Gaz. 6 June 2/3 Complaints made by the local Locksmith's Trades Union, as to the sub~letting of Navy contracts to garret-masters not under factory inspection. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † garretn.² Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps compare earlier garret n.¹, although the nature of any relationship with that word is unclear. ΚΠ 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum §352 The Experiment of Wood that Shineth in the Darke..The Colour of the Shining Part, by Day-light, is in some Peeces White, in some Peeces inclining to Red; Which in the Countrey they call the White and Red Garret. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). garretv. /ˈɡarɪt/ Etymology: Of uncertain origin; compare gallet v. Building. transitive. To insert small pieces of stone in the joints of (coarse masonry). ΚΠ 1846 Ecclesiologist 6 45 The old way of ‘garreting’ flint-work, that is, of inserting small flint-shivers in the mortar of the joints. Derivatives ˈgarreting n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or constructing with stone > [noun] > other processes raggling1500 rigalding1688 tailing1700 rusticating1749 rustication1766 knobbling1785 boasting1823 wind-pinning1833 stroking1842 garreting1845 hearting1858 knobbing1875 ripple-flaking1883 retouch1885 1845 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (ed. 4) I. 182 Garretting: small splinters of stone, inserted in the joints of course masonry; they are stuck in after the work is built. Flint walls are very frequently garretted. 1893 Surrey Gloss. Garreting, a species of pointing of stonework with small chips of stone in the joints. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.¹1340n.²1626v.1845
随便看	to hold to bail to hold to farm to hold to one's heart to hold to ransom to hold to the peace to hold to wife to hold together to hold touch to hold true to hold tug to hold under awe to hold under one's abandon to hold under one's girdle to hold up to hold up by the chin to hold up oil to hold up one's head to hold up one's nose to hold up the parade to hold wag to hold waken to hold ward to hold way to hold weight with to hold with

garretn.1

Compounds

† garretn.2

garretv.

Derivatives

garretn.¹

† garretn.²