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noun. An elasticized band worn around the leg to hold up a stocking or sock.

noun. A suspender strap with a fastener attached to a girdle or belt to hold up a stocking or sock.

noun. An elasticized band worn around the arm to keep the sleeve pushed up.

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noun. The badge of the Order of the Garter.

noun. The order itself.

noun. Membership in the order.

transitive verb. To fasten and hold with a garter.

transitive verb. To put a garter on.

noun. plural Leg-irons or shackles.

To bind with a garter.

To invest with the garter, as a member of the Order of the Garter.

noun. A tie or fastening to keep the stocking in place on the leg; especially, a band passing round the leg, either above or below the knee.

noun. The badge of the Order of the Garter (which see, below); hence, membership in the order; also [capitalized], the order itself: as, to confer or to receive the garter; a knight of the Garter.

noun. In heraldry, same as bendlet, : sometimes taken as occupying half the space of the bendlet, or quarter of the bend.

noun. [capitalized] An abbreviation of Garter king-at-arms (which see, below).

noun. plural In a circus, the tapes that are held up for a performer to leap over.

noun. A semicircular key in a bench-vise.

noun. In printing, an iron band which prevented the splitting of the wooden box that resisted the impression-spindle of the old form of handpress.

noun. A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.

noun. The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself.

noun. Same as Bendlet.

noun. a fish of the genus Lepidopus, having a long, flat body, like the blade of a sword; the scabbard fish.

noun. the chief of the official heralds of England, king-at-arms to the Order of the Garter; -- often abbreviated to Garter.

noun. one of several harmless American snakes of the genus Eutænia, of several species (esp. E. saurita and E. sirtalis); one of the striped snakes; -- so called from its conspicuous stripes of color.

transitive verb. To bind with a garter.

transitive verb. To invest with the Order of the Garter.

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

verb. to fasten with a garter

verb. fasten with or as if with a garter

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