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garret - 6 dictionary results

gar⋅ret

1[gar-it]
–noun
an attic, usually a small, wretched one.

Origin:
1300–50; ME garite watchtower < OF garite, guerite watchtower, deriv. of garir, guarir to defend, protect; see garrison


gar⋅ret⋅ed, adjective

gar⋅ret

2[gar-it]
–noun, verb (used with object) Masonry.
gallet.

Origin:
1835–45; of uncert. orig.

gal⋅let

[gal-it] Masonry.
–noun
1. spall (def. 1).
–verb (used with object)
2. to fill (a mortar joint) with gallets.
Also, galet, garret.


Origin:
1705–15; < F galet pebble, OF galet, jalet, deriv. of ONF gal pebble (said to be < Celtic, but MIr gall “pillar stone, standing stone” is only point of comparison)
gar·ret   (gār'ĭt)   
n.  A room on the top floor of a house, typically under a pitched roof; an attic.

[Middle English, from Old French garite, watchtower, from garir, to defend, of Germanic origin; see wer-4 in Indo-European roots.]

Garret

Gar"ret\, n. [OE. garite, garette, watchtower, place of lookout, OF. garite, also meaning, a place of refuge, F. gu['e]rite a place of refuge, donjon, sentinel box, fr. OF. garir to preserve, save, defend, F. gu['e]rir to cure; of German origin; cf. OHG. werian to protect, defend, hinder, G. wehren, akin to Goth. warjan to hinder, and akin to E. weir, or perhaps to wary. See Weir, and cf. Guerite.]

1. A turret; a watchtower. [Obs.]

He saw men go up and down on the garrets of the gates and walls. --Ld. Berners.

2. That part of a house which is on the upper floor, immediately under or within the roof; an attic.

The tottering garrets which overhung the streets of Rome. --Macaulay.
Language Translation for : garret
Spanish: buhardilla, desván,
German: die Dachstube,
Japanese: 屋根裏部屋

garret 
c.1300, "turret," from O.Fr. garite "watchtower, place of refuge," from garir "defend, preserve," from a Gmc. source (cf. Goth. warjan "forbid," O.H.G. warjan "to defend"), from P.Gmc. *warjanan, from PIE base *wer- "to cover" (see warrant). Meaning "room on uppermost floor of a house" is from 1483. See attic.
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