Archaic an enclosed yard or garden
Origin of garth
Middle English from Old Norse garthr, akin to Old English geard, yardgarth
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garth
noun
- An open quadrangle surrounded by a cloister.
- Archaic A yard, garden, or paddock.
Origin of garth
Middle English enclosed yard from Old Norse gardhr ; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots.THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural garths)
- A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters
- A close; a yard; a croft; a garden.
- a cloister garth
- A clearing in the woods; as such, part of many placenames in northern England
- (paganism) A group or a household dedicated to the pagan faith Heathenry.
- (paganism) A location or sacred space, in ritual and poetry in modern Heathenry.
- A dam or weir for catching fish.
Origin
From Old Norse garðr (cognate with Old English ġeard, whence English yard).
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