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garth

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"small piece of enclosed ground," northern and western English dialect word, mid-14c., from Old Norse garðr "yard, courtyard, fence," cognate of Old English geard (see yard (n.1)).

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
A garth is an enclosed quadrangle or yard, especially one surrounded by a cloister ( Middle English ; Old Norse garþr, garðr ; akin to Anglo-Saxon geard ). This led to the word being given as a last name to people who worked in or near a garden. Later it ...

Usage examples of garth.

Duke of Garth Showma, planetary governor of New Arcana, father of Sir Jasak Olderhan.

Lady Sylvester Elmshade, Mrs Barbara Lovebirch, Mrs Poll Ash, Mrs Holly Hazeleyes, Miss Daphne Bays, Miss Dorothy Canebrake, Mrs Clyde Twelvetrees, Mrs Rowan Greene, Mrs Helen Vinegadding, Miss Virginia Creeper, Miss Gladys Beech, Miss Olive Garth, Miss Blanche Maple, Mrs Maud Mahogany, Miss Myra Myrtle, Miss Priscilla Elderflower, Miss Bee Honeysuckle, Miss Grace Poplar, Miss O Mimosa San, Miss Rachel Cedarfrond, the Misses Lilian and Viola Lilac, Miss Timidity Aspenall, Mrs Kitty Dewey-Mosse, Miss May Hawthorne, Mrs Gloriana Palme, Mrs Liana Forrest, Mrs Arabella Blackwood and Mrs Norma Holyoake of Oakholme Regis graced the ceremony by their presence.

I discussed with Hurok and Professor Potter and my new friends, Varak and Garth, Yualla, Coph, Rukh and the other Sotharians, a plan for escaping from the caverns.

He pulled the nosewheel steering tiller toward him, pivoting the nosewheel sharply to the left, and began turning the huge jet as Garth yelped.

The master of the garth had been one Parian, not of the Old Race but with a dislike for the perilous life of the more fertile plains where there was almost constant warfare.

But deep down inside that vital female part of her, she had known that while Garth might not be interested in the kind of sadomasochistic sex that Blade had taught her to enjoy, he was very definitely a man who knew how to arouse and satisfy a woman, albeit with rather more tender and gentler methods than she was accustomed to.

She had suggested that perhaps Claudia might like to go back with them to recuperate for a while, but the doctor had already told Garth bluntly that the best possible thing for Claudia would be to encourage her to get back to work just as soon as she was physically capable.

The only difference was that someone had removed the boarding evidently meant to keep unwanted house hunters out, a someone who did not in tend to be put off by any would-be attempts to remove them if the graffiti scrawled across the doors and windows were anything to go by, Garth decided as he briefly read the colloquial message to the effect that uninvited visitors would not be welcome.

Claudia battened down her instinctive sense of outrage and revulsion, her anger at the way the girl was unwittingly intruding on the privacy of her lovemaking with Garth, defiling it almost, her training coming to the fore as she calmly ignored what the girl was saying.

Someone was singing a Garth Brooks song in nasal Trukese accompanied by an accordion.

Arinbiorn of the Bearings, and Wolfkettle and Thorolf of his own House, and Hiarandi of the Elkings, and Geirbald the Shielding, the messenger of the woods, and Fox who had seen the Roman Garth, and many others.

But he fancied himself the next Garth Brooks of the Bayou with his combination of country, zydeco, and Cajun music, which he played on off nights going from one dive to another across Louisiana.

The neat, short-nailed, scrubbed hands that she had folded in front of her suddenly twitched betrayingly as Garth waited.

It was the noise that woke Garth, his brain registering it as alien and therefore potentially dangerous even through the agonizing pounding of the headache that felt like two cavemen bludgeoning one another with stone clubs inside his skull.

Garth Dalmain still lies in a most precarious condition at his house on Deeside, Aberdeenshire, as a result of the shooting accident a fortnight ago.