Garter (Verb)
Meaning
Fasten with or as if with a garter.
Classification
Verbs of touching, hitting, tying, digging.
Examples
- She carefully fastened her stocking with a garter under her skirt to keep it from rolling down.
- The garter straps were failing to hold up his pants.
- Mother carefully gartered her daughter's knee-high socks before sending her to school.
- She struggled to garter the girdle to hold the shirt trousers properly in place.
- She gartered up her stockings before getting into the medieval costume for the play.