subs. (common).—1.  The head; COCKLOFT (q.v.); or UPPER STOREY (q.v.). For synonyms, see CRUMPET.

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  1625.  BACON, Some Additional Apophthegms, No. 17. My Lord St. Alban said, that wise Nature did never put her precious jewels into a GARRET four stories high: and therefore that exceeding tall men had ever very empty heads.

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  1811.  GROSE and CLARKE, Lexicon Balatronicum., s.v.

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  1837.  R. H. BARHAM, The Ingoldsby Legends, ‘The Bagman’s Dog.’

            What ’s call’d ‘The Claret’
Flew over the GARRET.

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  2.  (old).—The fob-pocket.

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  TO HAVE ONE’S GARRET UNFURNISHED, verb. phr. (common).—To be crazy, stupid, lumpish. For synonyms, see APARTMENTS and BALMY.

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