different between garret vs garrot

English

Etymology

From Middle English garett, garite, from Old French garite, guerite (“watchtower”), from garir, guarir (“to defend, protect”) (compare English garrison), ultimately of Germanic origin (see English garage). Doublet of guerite.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??æ??t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??æ??t/, /?????t/

Noun

garret (plural garrets)

1. An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.
   • 1660, Samuel Pepys Diary, January 1.

     This morning (we living lately in the garret,) I rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other clothes but them.

Derived terms

• like a cat in a strange garret

Translations

Further reading

• garret on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• Trager, garter, grater

English

Etymology 1

French garrot

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??æ??t/

Noun

garrot (plural garrots)

1. A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.

   The Army doctor used a garrot to stop the bleeding from the injured soldier's wound.

Verb

garrot (third-person singular simple present garrots, present participle garroting, simple past and past participle garroted)

1. Alternative form of garrote

Translations

Etymology 2

Origin unknown.

Noun

garrot (plural garrots)

1. A seaduck of the genus Bucephala; a goldeneye.

Anagrams

• Rogart

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from French garrot.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Central) IPA^(key): /???r?t/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /?a?r?t/

Noun

garrot m (plural garrots)

1. club, truncheon

   Synonym: bastó

2. garrote (an iron collar formerly used to carry out executions)

Derived terms

• garrotar

Further reading

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

French

Etymology

From Provençal garra (“leg”) (see jarret) + the suffix -ot.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?a.?o/

Noun

garrot m (plural garrots)

1. tourniquet
2. garrot (small wooden cylinder)
3. garrote
4. goldeneye (duck)
5. withers

Related terms

• garroter

Descendants

• Spanish: garrote

Further reading

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