What is "garth"

Garth \Garth\ (g[aum]rth), n. [Icel. gar[eth]r 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 \Garth\, n. [ Girth.] A hoop or band. [Prov. Eng.]

"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)).

n. 1 A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters 2 A close; a yard; a croft; a garden. 3 A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England 4 (context paganism English) A group or a household dedicated to the pagan faith Heathenry. 5 (context paganism English) A location or sacred space, in ritual and poetry in modern Heathenry. 6 A dam or weir for catching fish.

Garth may refer to:

• Garth (architecture), a cloister garden of a medieval monastery
• Garth (name)

Garth was a comic strip in the British newspaper Daily Mirror from July 24, 1943, to March 22, 1997. The strip belonged to the action-adventure genre and recounted the exploits of the title character, an immensely strong hero who battled various villains throughout the world and many different chronological eras. Garth was widely syndicated throughout English-speaking countries during its long run. The 1960s Australian fast bowler Garth McKenzie was nicknamed after the comic strip hero.

Garth is a fictional character, a superhero in publications from DC Comics, originally known as Aqualad, and later known by the codename Tempest. As Aqualad, he was the teen sidekick and protégé to his guardian, the super-hero known as Aquaman, bearing the same super-abilities as his mentor that allow him to breathe underwater and communicate with marine life. He also possesses enhanced strength and speed that allow him to move through the ocean with relative ease as well as withstand the high-pressure depths of the ocean.

As Tempest, he lost the marine communication powers, but gained mystic-based abilities that allow him to control the temperature of water and moisture surrounding him, as well as the ability to emit destructive force beams from his eyes. As the adoptive Prince of Atlantis, he has at times been forced to assume his mentor's responsibilities as ruler of the oceans during Aquaman's absences, and has in recent years acted as Atlantis' official ambassador to the surface world.

Throughout much of the character's history he appears in a supporting role within the various Aquaman series. He is also a founding member of the superhero team, the Teen Titans, and has remained affiliated with the team throughout several of its many incarnations. In 1996, Garth starred in his own 4-issue limited series, under a new alias: Tempest. In the 2009-2010 miniseries, Blackest Night, Tempest is murdered in battle.

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 came to be used as a first name.

It is also possible that the name Garth comes from the Welsh name 'Gareth', Gareth [ˈɡarɛθ] is a Welsh masculine given name of uncertain meaning. It first appeared in this form in Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, in which it belonged to Sir Gareth, a brother of Gawain and one of the Knights of the Round Table. Malory based it on Gahariet, a name found in French Arthurian texts; it may have a Welsh origin, perhaps connected with the name Geraint, or the word gwaredd, meaning "gentleness". It is particularly popular in Wales, and Gary is sometimes taken as a pet form of it.

Garth was an important and historic house in the township of Garth in Guilsfield in Montgomeryshire. In the 18th century it became the home of the Mytton family who had originally been Shrewsbury mercers, who derived their wealth from the Montgomeryshire weaving industry. They had settled at Pontyscoweryd in Meifod and at Halston in Shropshire. The most famous members of the family were General Mytton, the Parliamentary Commander in the Civil War in the Marches and “Mad Jack Mytton”, the eccentric 19th. century squire of Halston. Probably at the end of the 18th. century a grandiose rebuilding scheme was started by Devereux Mytton. His grandson, Richard Mytton, who inherited Garth in 1809 at the age of 23 was faced with financial problems. The Myttons were never able to afford to live in style in this house. It is often stated that it cost nearly £100,000 to build The family continued to own the house until 1947, when it was finally demolished.