gaiter

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡeɪ.tə/    美 /ˈɡeɪ.təɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep.
  2. The dogwood, or a similar shrub. dialectal,obsolete
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. A part of the ecclesiastical garb of a bishop.
  6. A protective flexible sleeve covering a moving part, intended to keep the part clean.
动词 v.
  1. To dress with gaiters. transitive

词形变化

gaiters plural gaiters present,singular,third-person gaitering participle,present gaitered participle,past gaitered past gaiters plural

词汇关系

衍生词
gaiterless gaiterlike neck gaiter supergaiter
相关词
spat

词源

词源 1
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”).
词源 2
From Middle English gaytre, from Old English gāte-trēow (“the common dogwood”), equivalent to gāt (“goat”) + trēow (“tree”).
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