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garita, ~um [AN, ME garite] 1 ‘garret’, turret on tower or parapet, watchtower, sentry-box. 1219 custum quod posuit ‥ in ‥ j ~a facienda in castro de N Cl 399b; 1236 (v. 1 culmus 2); 1249 quedam garrita extra portam deteriorata est IMisc 3/14; 1323 ad reparandum pontem versatilem versus villam Glouc’ et ~am super eundem pontem MinAc 854/7; 1385 in ix peciis meremii querc’ emptis, et expend’ circa quandam garettam factam super finem de la Mesondieu KR Ac 483/5 m. 1 (Berwick Castle) ; c1386 pro ‥ novo garett’ infra portam versus hospitale S. Katerine Ib. 473/2 m. 6 (Tower) ; 1389 ad ‥ supervidendum quod domus, logie, ~e seu loupe ‥ ville Berewici ‥ non sint combuste RScot 96b; 1394 de defectibus castri ‥ in muris, portis, turellis, loupis, ~is, pontibus, barreris, et fossatis Cl 236 m. 39d.; 1402 nisi ‥ villam [de Est Tilbury] ‥ per costeram maris cum quodam muro terre, garettis, aliisque modis ‥ fortificare proponant (Pat) Foed. VIII 271a. 2 loft, garret (of house). 1181 si Ricardus aliquid posuerit in stauramento illius terre, vel in domibus vel edificiis vel guarettis vel in ceteris rebus AncD A 6461; 1281 in reparacione domorum, cum emendacione ~i Ac. Wellingb. 22; 1342 in solario novo juxta ~um (Ac. King’s Hall I 131) Arch. Hist. Camb. II 681; 1376 de ‥ Willelmo D. pro j garetto ibidem per annum (Rent.) Mem. York I 11; 1388 tenementum vocatum Gyngersynne in eadem parochia [S. Martini in Oxonia] cum carettis [LTR AcEsch 10 r. 13: garettis] et shopis annexis IMisc 240/22; 1405 (v. gettare).

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