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Webster 1913 Edition


Garth

Garth

(gärth)
,
Noun.
[Icel.
garðr
yard. See
Yard
.]
1.
A close; a yard; a croft; a garden;
as, a cloister
garth
.
A clapper clapping in a
garth

To scare the fowl from fruit.
Tennyson.
2.
A dam or weir for catching fish.

Garth

,
Noun.
[
Girth
.]
A hoop or band.
[Prov. Eng.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Garth

GARTH

, n.
1.
A dam or wear for catching fish.
2.
A close; a little backside; a yard; a croft; a garden. [Not used.]

Definition 2024


Garth

Garth

See also: garth, gárð, and gárþ

English

Proper noun

Garth

  1. A male given name, shortened form of Gareth
  2. A village in Powys, Wales

garth

garth

See also: Garth, gárð, and gárþ

English

Noun

garth (plural garths)

  1. A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters
  2. A close; a yard; a croft; a garden.
    a cloister garth
    • Tennyson
      A clapper clapping in a garth / To scare the fowl from fruit.
  3. A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England
  4. (paganism) A group or a household dedicated to the pagan faith Heathenry.
  5. (paganism) A location or sacred space, in ritual and poetry in modern Heathenry.
  6. A dam or weir for catching fish.

Related terms

  • gravegarth

Welsh

Etymology

From Proto-Celtic *gortos (compare Irish gort), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰórts < *gʰórdʰs < *ǵʰortós (enclosure, yard) (compare Latin hortus, Old English geard).

Noun

garth m, f (plural garthau or geirth)

  1. cliff
  2. enclosure

Mutation

Welsh mutation
radical soft nasal aspirate
garth arth ngarth unchanged
Note: Some of these forms may be hypothetical. Not every
possible mutated form of every word actually occurs.