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- n. Plural form of gaiter.
Examples
“I have on at this moment a very neat thing in English gaiters, of respectable dimensions, toe-corners sharp as Damascus blade, three-fourths of an inch in sole, one and a half inches in heel, with a plenty of half-inch, cast-steel nails all round, -- quite a neat thing, I assure you.”
“The gouty old creature in English gaiters!" he said; "let him take himself off to Prussia with that queue of his.”
“The legs were protected by canvas leg covering called gaiters, which buttoned up the side and were form fitting.”
“I suppose they must have been some garden party -- I distinctly recall the gaiters of a bishop and the coloured linings of more than one doctor's hood among them.”
Margarita's Soul The Romantic Recollections of a Man of Fifty
“They also wear trail-specific items such as gaiters sock-like items designed to keep pebbles out of shoes.”
“You may add, if you please, a few miscellaneous articles such as gaiters and extra bags, but never have I seen any man of Cho-sen walk about with more habiliments than these, although I have many times seen people who had a great deal less.”
“It was the figure of a man in a leather garb, and wearing a kind of gaiters bound to the legs by strips of hide which went across and across from the instep to far above the knee.”
“I had to wear a long-sleeved blouse with a colorfully embroidered thick cloth vest over it, plus a decorated headband and gaiters over my shoes.”
The Huffington Post: Yoani Sanchez: Al Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go
“On the day planned for our live world dance performance, I discovered that someone in the hostel had stolen one of my gaiters, and my sister was showing the first signs of heat stroke.”
The Huffington Post: Yoani Sanchez: Al Dressed Up And Nowhere To Go
“What to Pack: Guide companies will often rent gear, like heavy parkas, gaiters and climbing poles.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘gaiters’.
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Wuthering Heights
Obscure classic English words in Wuthering Heights you barely understand till you check the dictionary out.
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slumry's Words
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Vanity Fair
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amazing grace
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The Golem's Eye
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, The Golem's Eye.
ordure, widdershins, cop, stipple, ostler, struts, minaret, chemise, remonstrate, concussion, wicket, vamoose and 249 more...
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Historical Military Terms of Interest
Many (if not all) of these terms were selected from A pocket dictionary, for military officers, containing a definition of all the tactical terms now in use, with other matter belonging to the art ...
zig-zags, yeoman, xerxes, xeiff, xenophon, worm, watch-word, windage, wheeling, wad-hock, wadding, volley and 242 more...
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Getting high
Vertical, that is. Nothing quite like high altitude with a view.
cornice, talus, moraine, col, crevasse, glacier, arete, timberline, rime, alpine, crampons, glissade and 15 more...
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The Anonymous Borrower's Words
Words from the English translation of Italo Calvino's Baron in the Trees found underlined, in blue biro, by a previous reader of the Vancouver Public Library's copy of the Calvino collection entitl...
sentinel, mane, shod, rapier, tricorne, elm, carob, mulberry, shrub, waft, wren, gaiters and 49 more...
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chained_bear "a kind of spatterdashes or boots made with cloth, worn by soldiers." Also (archaically) spelled gaithers. In the 18th century, coverings of cloth, leather, etc. for the ankle, or ankle and lower leg, usually worn by men. (i.e. not really boots) Feb 13, 2007