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gaiter

/ˈɡeɪ.tə/US/ˈɡeɪ.təɹ/

gaiter noun: a covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep.

gaiter: a covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep
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Noun (1)

gaiter (plural gaiters)

  1. A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep.
  2. A covering cloth or leather for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.
    • 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.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
  3. A neck gaiter.
    • [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.2022 June 14, D. Jackson Leigh, Forever Comes in Threes, Bold Strokes Books Inc, →ISBN
  4. A part of the ecclesiastical garb of a bishop.
  5. A protective flexible sleeve covering a moving part, intended to keep the part clean.

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To dress with gaiters.

Noun (2)

gaiter (plural gaiters)

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

Proper noun capitalized: Gaiter

Gaiter (plural Gaiters)

  1. A surname.

gaiter meaning in Urdu, Malayalam and Persian

gaiter in Urdu

جرموق, ٹخنہ پوش

gaiter in Malayalam

കണങ്കാലുറ, പാദകോശം

gaiter in Persian

covering for the ankle and instep
گتر getr

Forms of gaiter

Noun
pluralgaiters
Verb
third-person singular presentgaiters
present participlegaitering
past participlegaitered
pastgaitered
Proper noun
pluralGaiters

Origin of gaiter

Borrowed from French guêtre, from Middle French guiestres, guestes pl, from Old French *gueste, from Frankish *wastiju, from Proto-Germanic *wastijō (“garment; dress”). Cognate with Middle High German wester (“a child's chrisom-cloth”), Middle High German westebarn (“godchild”), Old English wæstling (“a coverlet”), Gothic 𐍅𐌰𐍃𐍄𐌹 (wasti, “garment; dress”).

From Middle English gaytre, from Old English gāte-trēow (“the common dogwood”), equivalent to gāt (“goat”) + trēow (“tree”).

Words formed from gaiter

Words that rhyme with gaiter

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Questions about gaiter

What does gaiter mean?
Gaiter means a covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep.
What is gaiter in Urdu?
Gaiter in Urdu is جرموق, ٹخنہ پوش. See Gaiter meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is gaiter?
Gaiter can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce gaiter?
Gaiter is pronounced /ˈɡeɪ.tə/ (UK).
What is the plural of gaiter?
The plural of gaiter is gaiters.

Words near gaiter in the dictionary

  1. gait apraxias
  2. gait belt
  3. Gaitan
  4. Gaitans
  5. gaited
  6. gaiter
  7. gaitered
  8. gaitering
  9. gaiterless
  10. gaiterlike
  11. gaiters

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: gaiter (page history and authors); Gaiter (page history and authors); gaiter (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); gaiter (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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