Definition of "garters" []

• Plural form of garter. (noun)

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• "IV. i.93 (416,7) [garters of an indifferent knit] What is the sense of this I know not, unless it means, that their _garters_ should be _fellows_; _indifferent_, or _not different_, one from the other."
• "Not for an instant did he bow to fate: all shackled as he was, his legs engarlanded in heavy chains -- which he called his garters -- he tempered his merriment with the meditation of escape."
• "I am glad of that said Mr Salteena I am [Pg 66] not so nimble as I was and my garters are a trifle tight."