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gaiter
Part of speech: NounA covering of cloth for the ankle, fitting over the top of the boot; a shoe with a cloth top.
Usage examples "gaiter":- At seventy five I expect to wear loud waistcoats with fancy buttons; also gaiter tops; at eighty I expect to learn how to play bridge whist and talk foolishly to the ladies. - "Edison, His Life and Inventions", Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford Martin.
- Her gaiter boots were saturated with wet, and soiled with reddish clay. - "Mabel's Mistake", Ann S. Stephens.
- I asked him at once whether he was hurt, and he said something- he thought it must be a bullet- had hit him on the gaiter and numbed his leg. - "London to Ladysmith via Pretoria", Winston Spencer Churchill.