ˌfly-the-ˈgarter
[f. the vbl. phrase to fly the garter.]
A game in which the players leap from one side of a ‘garter’ or line of stones over the back of one of their number.
| 1818 Keats Lett. Wks. (1889) III. 153, I must..make Wordsworth and Coleman play at leap-frog, or keep one of them down a whole half-holiday at fly-the-garter. 1862 M. E. Braddon Ralph Bailiff, Happy Xmas 161 Prisoner's base and fly-the-garter in the great bare playground. |