different between garter vs arter

English

Etymology

From Middle English garter, from Old Northern French gartier, from Old French garet (compare Old French jartier, from jaret), from Gaulish *garr?, from Proto-Celtic *garros (“calf, shank”) (compare Cornish gar, Cornish gar,Middle Welsh garr, Old Irish gairr). Cognate with French jarretière.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

garter (plural garters)

1. A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.
2. (heraldry) A bendlet.

Derived terms

• garter snake
• have someone's guts for garters
• Order of the Garter

Translations

Verb

garter (third-person singular simple present garters, present participle gartering, simple past and past participle gartered)

1. to fasten with a garter

Anagrams

• Trager, garret, grater

Middle English

Alternative forms

• gartere, gartier, gertier

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French gartier.

Noun

garter (plural garters)

1. garter

Descendants

• English: garter
• Yola: ghurteare, gurteare

References

• “garter, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Preposition

arter

1. Pronunciation spelling of after.
   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, chapter 3

     His right name was Compeyson; and that's the man, dear boy, what you see me a-pounding in the ditch, according to what you truly told your comrade arter I was gone last night.

   • 1861, Charles Dickens, Great Expectations, chapter 39

     It was the money left me, and the gains of the first few year wot I sent home to Mr. Jaggers - all for you - when he first come arter you, agreeable to my letter.

   • 2000, Alexander Kent, Colours Aloft!, McBooks Press, ?ISBN, page 115,

     "Is he asleep at last?"...

     "Aye, sir. So 'e should, arter what I put in 'is Madeira!"

Anagrams

• Terra, arrêt, rater, retar, tarre, terra

Danish

Noun

arter c

1. indefinite plural of art

Latin

Verb

arter

1. first-person singular present passive subjunctive of art?

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

arter m or f

1. indefinite plural of art

Norwegian Nynorsk

Alternative forms

• artar

Noun

arter m or f

1. indefinite feminine plural of art

Swedish

Noun

arter

1. indefinite plural of art

Anagrams

• retar