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A gaiter is a covering for the lower leg. In the past, men wore cloth or leather gaiters from below the knee down over the shoe, to keep mud off their trousers — you see them in old pictures and in stories about the 1800s. Walkers and still wear a modern kind: a waterproof sleeve that goes over the boot and up the calf, so rain, snow, and seeds do not run down into the shoe. It is a fairly specialist word: history, costume, and outdoor shops, not everyday chat. It looks as if it must come from gait, walking, but it does not; English borrowed it from French.
綁腿；護腿套
組成Borrowed from French guêtre, from Middle French guiestres / guestes, from Old French *gueste, from Frankish *wastiju, from Proto-Germanic *wastijō (garment, dress). Related at a deep level to old Germanic words for a covering or garment, not to English gait.
原始詞典資料8 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
Gaitername
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A surname.
gaiternoun詞源 1/ˈɡeɪ.tə/
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A covering of cloth or leather for the ankle and instep.
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A covering cloth or leather for the whole leg from the knee to the instep, fitting down upon the shoe.
- Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.
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A neck gaiter.
- [He] stood and pulled up the gaiter around his neck to mask his mouth and nose. “People are careful around here, so you'll want to put your mask on,” she told Perry.
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A part of the ecclesiastical garb of a bishop.
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automotivetransportvehiclesA protective flexible sleeve covering a moving part, intended to keep the part clean.
gaiterverb詞源 1/ˈɡeɪ.tə/
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To dress with gaiters.
gaiternoun詞源 2
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obsoletedialectalThe dogwood, or a similar shrub.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。