Garter

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 171

giir'ter, n. A band to hold up a stocking on the leg; the badge of the highest order of knighthood in Great Britain; the order itself. — v. t. [gartered (-terd), -tering.] To bind with a garter; to invest with the order of the Garter.