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Garret vs Garrot - What's the difference?

garret | garrot |

As nouns the difference between garret and garrot

is that garret is an attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house while garrot is a stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.

As a verb garrot is

an alternative form of lang=en.

garret

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.
  • * 1660 , Samuel Pepys Diary'', January 1.
    • This morning (we living lately in the garret ,) I rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other clothes but them.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1866, author= (translated by Constance Garnett), title=Crime and Punishment, section=Part I, Chapter I citation
    • , passage=On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.}}
  • * {{quote-book, year=1895, author=, title=Lilith
    • , passage=I was in the main garret , with huge beams and rafters over my head, great spaces around me, a door here and there in sight, and long vistas whose gloom was thinned by a few lurking cobwebbed windows and small dusky skylights.}}

    Derived terms

    * like a cat in a strange garret

    Anagrams

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    garrot

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A stick or small wooden cylinder used for tightening a bandage, in order to compress the arteries of a limb.
    • The Army doctor used a garrot to stop the bleeding from the injured soldier's wound.
  • A seaduck of the genre Bucephala ; a goldeneye.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
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