ppl. a. Obs. [CROSS- 8.] Having the garters crossed on the legs. (See Aldis Wright’s note to Shaks. Twel. N.) So Cross-gartering vbl. sb.
[1585. J. Higins, trans. Junius’ Nomenclator, 168. Fasciæ crurales, hose garters going acrosse or ouerthwart, both aboue and beneath the knee.
1599. Porter, Angry Wom. Abingt. (Percy Soc.), 25. I warrant yee, heele haue His cruell garters crosse about the knee.]
1601. Shaks., Twel. N., II. v. 167. And wish’d to see thee euer crosse garter’d. Ibid., III. iv. 23. This does make some obstruction in the blood, this crosse-gartering.
a. 1613. Overbury, Char., Footeman. More upright than any cross-gartered gentleman-usher.
1628. Ford, Lover’s Mel., III. i. As rare an old youth as ever walked cross-gartered.
