Garter [noun]

He lays one on the top of each load, and whose garter it is must carry the load without any further talk.

The same embroidery confined his stockings, on each knee, like the order of the garter.

I was told that one lady wore a $5,000 diamond in her garter.

My garter, a purple silk ribbon, lay in the centre of the ring.

She turned round, and looked first at the garter and then at him.

He might have ill-used his own wife and other wives' husbands without special remark, had he not been made a Knight of the Garter.

Garter King suddenly making off to the right, walks up Gangway to row of empty Benches.

Garter King prods him in chest with small stick, and tells him to go on to the Bench above.

(a) The buckle on the garter has the point and tongue turned up to the left.

I knew he would never consent to spend the season at the Star and Garter at my expense.