different between gaiter vs gainer

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French guêtre, from Middle French guiestres, guestes pl, from Old French *gueste, from Frankish *wasta, *wastija, from Proto-Germanic *wastij? (“garment; dress”).

Cognate with Middle High German wester (“a child's chrisom-cloth”), Middle High German westebarn (“godchild”), Old English wæstling (“a coverlet”), Gothic ???????????????????? (wasti, “garment; dress”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??e?.t?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??e?.t??/
• Rhymes: -e?t?(?)

Noun

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.
3. Part of the ecclesiastical garb of a bishop.

Translations

See also

• spat

Verb

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

Anagrams

• aigret, tirage, triage, trigae

Catalan

Etymology

gaita +? -er

Noun

gaiter m (plural gaiters, feminine gaitera)

1. bagpiper

Further reading

• “gaiter” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

Old French

Verb

gaiter

1. Alternative form of gaitier

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. The forms that would normally end in *-ts, *-tt are modified to z, t. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.

English

Etymology

From gain +? -er. Compare German Gegner (“opponent, adversary”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??e?n?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /??e?n?/

Noun

gainer (plural gainers)

1. One who gains a profit or advantage.
   • 1925-29, Mahadev Desai (translator), M.K. Gandhi, The Story of My Experiments with Truth, Part I, chapter xvi^[2]:

     Let every youth take a leaf out of my book and make it a point to account for everything that comes into and goes out of his pocket, and like me he is sure to be a gainer in the end.

2. One who puts on weight.
3. (sports, slang) A diving or gymnastics maneuver, from a high diving board or platform, involving a simultaneous inversion and rotation.
   • 1961, Stanis?aw Lem, Return from the Stars, chapter 4:

     I tried a full gainer with a twist, the way he did it, but succeeded only in smacking the water with my thighs.

Derived terms

• weight gainer

Related terms

• back gainer sports
• full gainer sports
• gain
• half gainer sports
• reverse gainer sports

References

• OED2

Anagrams

• Gearin, Reagin, Regina, anigre, earing, in gear, inrage, raigne, reagin, regain, regian, regina

French

Etymology

From gaine.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.ne/

Verb

gainer

1. to cover, sheathe

Conjugation

Further reading

• “gainer” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• graine, grainé, ignare, ingéra, régnai