Gartered vs. Garter — What's the Difference?

An elasticized band worn around the leg to hold up a stocking or sock.

A garter is an article of clothing comprising a narrow band of fabric fastened about the leg to keep up stockings. In the eighteenth to twentieth centuries, they were tied just below the knee, where the leg is most slender, to keep the stocking from slipping.

A suspender strap with a fastener attached to a girdle or belt to hold up a stocking or sock.

An elasticized band worn around the leg to hold up a stocking or sock.

An elasticized band worn around the arm to keep the sleeve pushed up.

A suspender strap with a fastener attached to a girdle or belt to hold up a stocking or sock.

The badge of the Order of the Garter.

An elasticized band worn around the arm to keep the sleeve pushed up.

The order itself.

The badge of the Order of the Garter.

Membership in the order.

The order itself.

To fasten and hold with a garter.

Membership in the order.

To put a garter on.

To fasten and hold with a garter.

Wearing a garter

To put a garter on.

Simple past tense and past participle of garter

A band worn around the leg to hold up a sock or stocking.

(heraldry) A bendlet.

To fasten with a garter

A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.

The distinguishing badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain, called the Order of the Garter, instituted by Edward III.; also, the Order itself.

Same as Bendlet.

To bind with a garter.

To invest with the Order of the Garter.

A band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve)

Fasten with or as if with a garter