garter

garter is a 6-letter English word with 7 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

6 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 7 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A band used to prevent a stocking from slipping down on the leg.
2. noun. 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.
3. noun. Same as Bendlet.
4. transitive verb. To bind with a garter.
5. transitive verb. To invest with the Order of the Garter.
6. noun. a band (usually elastic) worn around the leg to hold up a stocking (or around the arm to hold up a sleeve)

   Synonyms: supporter

7. verb. fasten with or as if with a garter

Synonyms

supporter

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in garter:

garret, grater, targer

Common word forms

garters, gartered, gartering, garterless

Words from these letters

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