Liberal Dictionary English Dictionary
noun
- an attic, usually a small, wretched one.
noun, verb (used with object) Masonry.
noun
verb (used with object)
- to fill (a mortar joint) with gallets.
noun
- another word for attic (def. 1)
c.1300, “turret, small tower on the roof of a house or castle,” from Old French garite “watchtower, place of refuge,” from garir “defend, preserve,” from a Germanic source (cf. Gothic warjan “forbid,” Old High German warjan “to defend”), from Proto-Germanic *warjanan, from PIE root *wer- “to cover” (see warrant (n.)). Meaning “room on uppermost floor of a house” is from early 14c. See attic. As the typical wretched abode of a poor poet, by mid-18c.