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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈɡeɪ.tə/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈɡeɪ.təɹ/
• 韻: -eɪtə(ɹ)
• 異形同音異義語: gater, gator

名詞

gaiter (plural gaiters)

1. A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep.

   Coordinate term: spats

2. A covering cloth or leather for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.
   • 1897 December (indicated as 1898), Winston Churchill, chapter II, in The Celebrity: An Episode, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., →OCLC:

     Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

3. A neck gaiter.
   • 2022 June 14, D. Jackson Leigh, Forever Comes in Threes, Bold Strokes Books Inc, →ISBN:

     [He] stood and pulled up the gaiter around his neck to mask his mouth and nose. “People are careful around here, so you'll want to put your mask on,” she told Perry.

4. Part of the ecclesiastical garb of a bishop.
5. (automotive) A protective flexible sleeve covering a moving part, intended to keep the part clean.

派生語

参考

• spat

動詞

gaiter (third-person singular simple present gaiters, present participle gaitering, simple past and past participle gaitered)

1. To dress with gaiters.

Further reading

• gaiters on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

語源 2

From 中期英語 gaytre, from 古期英語 gāte-trēow (“the common dogwood”), equivalent to gāt (“goat”) +‎ trēow (“tree”).

名詞

gaiter (plural gaiters)

1. (obsolete, dialectal) The dogwood, or a similar shrub.

参照

• “gaiter, n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
• Angus Cameron, Ashley Crandell Amos, Antonette diPaolo Healey, editors (2018), “gāte-trēow”, in Dictionary of Old English: A to Le ⁠, Toronto: University of Toronto, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• aigret, tirage, triage, trigae