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Gaiter

Definitions: Gaiter

Gaiter

Noun

1. A cloth covering (a legging) that provides covering for the instep and ankles.

2. An shoe covering the ankle with elastic gores in the sides.

3. Legging consisting of a cloth or leather covering for the leg from the knee to the ankle.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "gaiter" was first used: 1775. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Gaiter

DomainDefinitions

Dream Interpretation

To dream of gaiters, foretells pleasant amusements and rivalries. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted ....

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms: Gaiter

Synonyms: spat (n), spats (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Gaiter

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Clothing

Shoe, pump, boot, slipper, sandal, galoche, galoshes, patten, clog; sneakers, running shoes, hiking boots; high-low; Blucher boot, wellington boot, Hessian boot, jack boot, top boot; Balmoral; arctics, bootee, bootikin, brogan, chaparajos; chavar, chivarras, chivarros; gums, larrigan, rubbers, showshoe, stogy, veldtschoen, legging, buskin, greave, galligaskin, gamache, gamashes, moccasin, gambado, gaiter, spatterdash, brogue, antigropelos; stocking, hose, gaskins, trunk hose, sock; hosiery.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Gaiter

English words defined with "gaiter": Bootikincongress gaiterGalosheLeggin. (references)
Specialty definitions using "gaiter": hose gaiterprotective gaiter. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Gaiter" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses.

Manx (gaiter).

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Image Slideshow: Gaiter

Illustrations:
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Usage Frequency: Gaiter

"Gaiter" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Gaiter" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%7133,076

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Name Usage Frequency: Gaiter

The following table summarizes the usage of "gaiter" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified.
NameUsage/GenderUsage per 100
million Persons
Rank in USA
GaiterLast name1,00018,220
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Gaiter

Expressions using "gaiter": congress gaiter hose gaiter protective gaiter woolen gaiter. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Gaiter

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

gaiter

54

snake gaiter

8

gaiter proof snake

3

gaiter hiking

3

gaiter leather

3

outdoor research gaiter

2

neck gaiter

2

gaiter rain

2

dotty gaiter

2

gaiter snakeproof

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Gaiter

Language Translations for "gaiter"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

gete (fishnet stockings, hose, leotards, panty hose), këpucë me çafa pa lidhëse, dollakë (leggings, puttee). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏مدرب على المشي. (various references)

   

Czech

  

kamaše (leggings, spats, spatterdashes). (various references)

   

Danish

  

gamache (legging, protective gaiter). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

slobkous. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

gamaŝo, tibiingo (legging). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

nilkkain (legging, protective gaiter). (various references)

   

French

  

guêtre, houseau, emplâtre de réparation. (various references)

   

German

  

gamasche (legging, puttee, putty, spat). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

γκέτα (legging, spat, spats). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מוק, קרסולית (anklet, spat, Spatterdash). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

porvédő harmonika, lábszárvédő (leggings, pad, pads, puttee, shin guards), kamásli (anklet, leggings, puttees, spat, stocking), bokavédő (ankle pad, leggings, spat), bőrharmonika. (various references)

   

Italian

  

ghetta, uosa. (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

ゲージ理論 (entering the starting gate, game center, gate, gate array, gate ball, gateway, gauge theory, Godel, Goedel, spat). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

ゲートル (spat). (various references)

   

Manx

  

gaiter. (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

gamasje. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aitergay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

polaina. (various references)

   

Romanian

  

gheatã (boot, brogue, galosh, shoe), jambiere (gaiters, leggings, spats, uppers), şoşon (galosh). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

гамаши (leggings). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

dokolenica. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

polaina (legging, puttee). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

damask (collapsible cover, extensible cover, legging, protective gaiter, spat). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ผ้าพันแข้ง (สำหรับนักไต่เขา / นักเ"ิน), รองเท้าแบบหุ้มข้อเท้าและไม่มีเชือกผูก. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

tozluk. (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

крага, гамаша. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

socas (legging). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Gaiter

LanguagePeriodTranslations
French1500-Modern

gutre. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Gaiter

Derivations

Words beginning with "gaiter": gaiters. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Gaiter" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: agier, agister, agita, aiter, gadter, Gaeltec, gaete, gafter, gaider, Gaintec, gairer, gaita, Gaitan, gaite, gaither, gaithert, gaitier, gaitor, gamter, ganter, Gantzer, Gasiyev, gater, gatter, gatur, gaufer, Gaulter, Gautam, gaute, Gautel, gauter, Gaviteer, Geater, Geeter, Geier, Geister, Geitel, geniter, ghaoithe, Gibtner, gifter, gitar, gitarr, gitter, Glaisher, gnitteg, Gualter, guater, guite, Guyther, jaite, naiter. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Gaiter"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "gaiter" (pronounced gā"ter)
4g ā" t ergator.
3-ā" t ercater, crater, creator, curator, debater, deflator, dictator, equator, Frater, freighter, grater, greater, hater, inflator, later, Pater, Plater, Prater, rater, skater, Slater, stater, straighter, traitor, translator, Viator, vindicator, waiter.

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

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Anagrams: Gaiter

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: aigret, triage.

Words within the letters "a-e-g-i-r-t"

-1 letter: grate, great, irate, retag, retia, targe, terai, terga, tiger, tragi.

-2 letters: ager, airt, gait, gate, gear, geta, girt, grat, grit, rage, ragi, rate, rite, tare, tear, tier, tire, trig.

-3 letters: age, air, ait, are, art, ate, ear, eat, era, erg, eta, gae, gar, gat, get, gie, git, ire, rag, rat, reg, rei, ret, ria, rig, tae, tag, tar, tea, teg, tie.

-4 letters: ae, ag, ai, ar, at, er, et, it, re, ta, ti.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-g-i-r-t"
 

+1 letter: aigrets, cigaret, frigate, gaiters, granite, gratine, ingrate, migrate, ragtime, seagirt, stagier, tangier, tearing, triaged, triages, virgate.

 

+2 letters: aerating, aglitter, agrestic, aigrette, alerting, altering, angriest, argentic, astringe, averting, berating, catering, cigarets, creating, derating, driftage, earthing, emigrant, emigrate, ergastic, ergative, figeater, figurate, frigates, fruitage, ganister, gantries, giftware, glariest, gnattier, gradient, granites, graphite, grapiest, gratinee, grievant, hearting, heritage, ingather, ingrates, integral, interage, irrigate, ligature, litharge, magister, migrated, migrates, pterygia, ragtimes, rangiest, ravigote, reacting, rebating, redating, regality, relating, remating, retaking, retaping, retaxing, staggier, sterigma, tabering, tanglier, tapering, thirlage, treading, treating, triangle, twangier, vintager, virgates, watering.

 

+3 letters: accreting, adverting, agentries, aigrettes, allergist, antiglare, aragonite, arbitrage, argentine, argentite, argillite, arresting, asserting, astringed, astringes, bantering, bartering, battering, betraying, braggiest, breasting, breathing, cantering, carpeting, cartilage, cartridge, categoric, centigram, cigarette, ciguatera, craggiest, cratering, cremating, curtilage, denigrate, departing, deratting, draggiest, driftages, earthling, emigrants, emigrated, emigrates, estraying, faltering, fathering, featuring, figeaters, fruitages, ganisters, gannister, garniture, gartering, gathering, gauntries, gearshift, geriatric, germinate, ghastlier, giftwares, gigahertz, glairiest, gnarliest, grabbiest, gradients, grainiest, granulite, graphites, grassiest, graticule, gratified, gratifies, gratineed, gratinees, gratitude, gravitate, gravities, greasiest, grievants, haltering, haughtier, heritages, hermitage, immigrate, ingathers, ingrafted, integrals, integrand, integrate, intergang, irrigated, irrigates, iterating, lathering, lethargic, ligatured, ligatures, litharges, litterbag, magisters, margarite, marginate, marketing, mastering, mattering, morganite, nattering, naughtier, nightmare, nightwear, operating, orangiest, originate, paltering, parenting, pargeting, partridge, pattering, preacting, predating, pretaping, purgative, rabbeting, racketing, rattening, ravigotes, rebaiting, recanting, recasting, recrating, redacting, reflating, registrar, regrating, reheating, repasting, repeating, replating, reseating, reslating, restaging, restating, retacking, retagging, retailing, retaining, retarding, retasting, reteaming, retearing, retracing, seriating, serrating, signature, sterigmas, stingaree, strategic, streaking, streaming, sugariest, tailgater, tampering, tangerine, targeting, tattering, terracing, thirlages, threading, threaping, threating, tragedian, tragedies, trameling, trapesing, traveling, treadling, treillage, trialogue, triangles, uptearing, variegate, vintagers, waterings, wreathing, yattering.

 

+4 letters: abreacting, abridgment, absterging, acerbating, acierating, affrighted, afterimage, airfreight, algebraist, allegorist, allergists, antimerger, aragonites, arbitraged, arbitrager, arbitrages, argentines, argentites, argillites, arpeggiate, asperating, astringent, bartending, bighearted, bilgewater, blathering, blattering, bracketing, breathings, brigantine, caretaking, carpetings, cartilages, cartridges, categories, categorise, categorize, centigrade, centigrams, chaptering, chartering, chattering, cigarettes, ciguateras, clattering, cocreating, corelating, curtilages, deaerating, decorating, denaturing, denigrated, denigrates, denigrator, depurating, derogating, derogation, derogative, designator, detracting, detraining, dewatering, dogmatizer, draughtier, earthlight, earthlings, emarginate, emigrating, emigration, enervating, engrafting, entraining, entrancing, entrapping, entreating, epigastric, eradiating, ergotamine, eructating, estranging, estreating, execrating, extracting, faggotries, farsighted, feathering, federating, figurative, flattering, foredating, freightage, gadgetries, galleryite, gannisters, garmenting, garnierite, garnitures, gatherings, gearshifts, generalist, generality, generating, generation, generative, generatrix, geriatrics, germinated, germinates, glitterati, granulites, grapefruit, graphitize, graptolite, graticules, gratitudes, gratuities, gravimeter, gravimetry, gravitases, gravitated, gravitates, greatening, guarantied, guaranties, gyniatries, harvesting, heartening, hermitages, herniating, iatrogenic, immigrated, immigrates, impregnant, impregnate, inaugurate, inearthing, ingathered, ingratiate, integrable, integrally, integrands, integrated, integrates, integrator, interabang, intergrade, intergraft, interorgan, interregna, interstage, intragenic, intreating, invigorate, isografted, kerygmatic, lacerating, lateraling, laterizing, laureating, leathering, legislator, lethargies, liberating, lighterage, litterbags, macerating, magistrate, magnetizer, margarites, margenting, marginated, marginates, marguerite, marketings, martingale, misgrafted, moderating, morganites, multigrade, multirange, negotiator, nightmares, numerating, originated, originates, outearning, outhearing, outreading, outwearing, overacting, overeating, overhating, overrating, overtaking, overtaxing, panegyrist, parentings, pargetting, parqueting, partnering, partridges, patterning, permeating, perorating, pertaining, pigmentary, plastering, precasting, pregenital, preheating, prepasting, pretasting, profligate, purgatives, quartering, ratcheting, readapting, readopting, realtering, recharting, recreating, redbaiting, redrafting, reenacting, refloating, refracting, regalities, regelating, regimental, registrant, registrars, regrafting, regranting, regularity, regulating, regulation, regulative, relegating, relegation, relocating, rematching, renaturing, renovating, repainting, repatching, replanting, resaluting, resinating, resonating, restacking, restaffing, restamping, restarting, retackling, retailings, reteaching, retracking, retracting, retraining, retreading, retreating, ringmaster, sauntering, scattering, scraggiest, separating, shattering, signatures, slathering, smaragdite, smartening, smattering, spattering, staggering, stammering, starveling, steamering, sterigmata, stewarding, stingarees, stragglier, straighted, straighten, straighter, strategies, strategist, strategize, stravaiged, streakings, streamings, supergiant, tailgaters, tangerines, tardigrade, theurgical, tolerating, tragedians, trailering, trajecting, tramelling, trammeling, transgenic, travelling, traversing, treasuring, treillages, trepanning, trialogues, trigeminal, triggerman, ulcerating, uncreating, unearthing, untreading, urogenital, variegated, variegates, variegator, vegetarian, venerating, watertight, weathering.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Gaiter


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

47 61 69 74 65 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.    .-    ..    -    .    .-.

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000111 01100001 01101001 01110100 01100101 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#71 &#97 &#105 &#116 &#101 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0047 0061 0069 0074 0065 0072

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

416775867184

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Images: Slideshow
5. Usage Frequency
6. Names: Frequency
7. Expressions
8. Expressions: Internet
9. Translations: Modern
10. Translations: Ancient
11. Derivations
12. Rhymes
13. Anagrams
14. Orthography
15. Bibliography


  

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