girt

¹ American  

[gurt] / gɜrt /

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of gird.

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girt ² American  

[gurt] / gɜrt /

verb (used with object)

1. an uncommon variant of gird.

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girt ³ American  

[gurt] / gɜrt /

noun

1. a variant of girth.

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girt ⁴ American  

[gurt] / gɜrt /

noun

1. Carpentry.

   1. a timber or plate connecting the corner posts of an exterior wooden frame, as a braced frame, at a floor above the ground floor.

   2. a heavy beam, as for supporting the ends of rafters.

2. Printing. (in certain hand presses) one of a pair of leather straps having one end fastened to the bed and the other to the rounce, for drawing the bed under the platen.

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girt ¹ British  

/ ɡɜːt /

verb

1. a past tense and past participle of gird 1

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adjective

1. nautical moored securely to prevent swinging

girt ² British  

/ ɡɜːt /

verb

1. (tr) to bind or encircle; gird

2. to measure the girth of (something)

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Etymology

Origin of girt

First recorded in 1555–65; alteration of girth

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Example Sentences

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girt

And at the center is Finland, a country of just 5.4 million people, girt by the sea and lashed by the wind.

From The New Yorker ● May 12, 2015

Fellow passengers took small note of the droopy, bedraggled mustache, the old fashioned spectacles, the somewhat scrawny neck girt by a casual tie.

From Time Magazine Archive

Within two years, he declared, the British Empire will have scrapped her historic free trade policy, girt herself with a tariff wall against U. S. and even European competition.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thus girt with logic, Leon Henderson still had no price weapon last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

Gandalf bore his staff, but girt at his side was the elven-sword Glamdring, the mate of Orcrist that lay now upon the breast of Thorin under the Lonely Mountain.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

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