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▪ I. gaiter, n.1|ˈgeɪtə(r)|
[a. F. guêtre (in 15th c. guietre); of unknown origin; there are Rom. synonyms without r, as Walloon guett, Sardinian ghetta, mod.Pr. gueto: see Körting Lat. Rom. Wb. s.v.]
1. A covering of cloth, leather, etc. for the ankle, or ankle and lower leg.
1775[cf. half-gaiter s.v. half II. l]. 1802C. James Milit. 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. 1812H. & J. Smith Rej. Addr., Theatre 71 Lax in their gaiters, laxer in their gait. 1837Dickens Pickw. xii, Mr. Weller was furnished with..light breeches and gaiters. 1865― Mut. Fr. i. v, Thick leather gaiters. 1880Plain Knitting 19 Gaiters (i.e. legs of stockings without feet)..are very useful to those who are obliged to walk out in all weathers. 1886Hall Caine Son of Hagar ii. xvi, Parson Christian stood near her in silk gaiters.
2. U.S. (See quots.)
1864Webster, Gaiter, 2 a kind of shoe, consisting chiefly of cloth, and covering the ankle. 1889Century Dict., Gaiter, Now, also, a shoe of similar form, with or without cloth, generally with an insertion of elastic on each side.
3. attrib. and Comb., as gaiter-maker, gaiter-strap; gaiter-boot, -shoe (orig. U.S.) = sense 2.
1840Picayune (New Orleans) 30 July 2/4 Many of the ladies of Philadelphia..now wear..gaiter boots, with little straps of black leather. 1849N. P. Willis Rural Lett. 230 Dandies strolling and stealing an occasional look at their loose demi-saison pantaloons and gaiter-shoes. 1862Carlyle Fredk. Gt. ix. x. (1865) III. 152 From big guns and wagon-horses down to gun-flints and gaiter-straps. 1875Mrs. Stowe We & Neighbors x. 106 Looking as if they never had heard of a French hat or a pair of gaiter-boots. 1894Daily News 29 Dec. 3/6 Her husband was a gaiter maker. 1932‘A. Bridge’ Peking Picnic x. 111 Blue trousers tucked into high white gaiter boots.
▪ II. ˈgaiter, n.2 Obs. exc. dial.
Forms: 1 gáte tréow, 4–5 gaitrys, gattris, gaytre, 6 gadrise, gaten(-tree), gater, (8 garter), 6–9 gatten, 7–9 gatt(e)ridge, gatter, gaiter.
[The OE. gáte tréow = goat's tree; but app. this has mixed with a synonym of which the OE. form, if it existed, would be *gáte hrís (hrís, rise, bush). The forms are partly northern, with (eː) for OE. á, and partly exhibit the vowel-shortening common in the first element of compounds.]
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 attrib. in gaiter-berry, gaiter-bush, gaiter-tree.
c1000Saxon Leechd. II. 86 Wiþ þære adl þe mon hæt circul adl, genim..gatetreow..wyl on wætre swiþe. c1386Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 145 Laxatyues..Of catapuce, or of gaitrys [vrr. gaytres, gaytrys, gattris, gaytre] beryis. 1548[see dog-tree 1]. 1578Lyte Dodoens vi. li. 725 Dogge berie or Gatten tree. 1597Gerarde Herball iii. cv. (1633) 1467 In the North Country they call it Gaten tree or Gater⁓tree. 1660Ray Catalog. Plant. Cantab. 39 Cornus fœmina..Dogberry or Gatter tree. 1691― S. & E. Country Wds., Gatteridge-tree is Cornus fœmina, or Prickwood, and yet Gatteridge-berries are the Fruit of Euonymus Theofrasti, i.e. Spindle-tree or Louse-berry. 1692Coles, Gaiter-berries, of the Gaiter-tree, prickwood. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 200 Cornus sanguinea..Gatten tree. Ibid. 259 Evonymus europæus..Gatteridge Tree. 1819Crabbe T. of Hall vii. 158 Dwarf trees and humbler shrubs..Haw, gatter, holm, the service and the sloe.
▪ III. gaiter, v.|ˈgeɪtə(r)|
[f. gaiter n.1]
trans. To dress or furnish with gaiters. Hence ˈgaitered ppl. a.
1760Proceedings Crt.-martial Ld. G. Sackville 11 The Cavalry must be saddled; the Artillery-Horses harnessed, and the Infantry gatered. 1848Craig, Gaiter, to dress with gaiters. 1852Smedley L. Arundel xxviii. 230 A leather-gaitered and corduroyed Christian. 1892Pall Mall G. 23 Sep. 6/2 The cocked-hatted and gaitered troops of the First Republic. |