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

Example Sentences

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

This week, with the annual Automobile Show in Manhattan marking the January first of the 1938 automobile year, rival makers were girt for renewed combat on a scale far greater than ever before.

From Time Magazine Archive

Chemistry feels that it owes much to Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research which will soon move into a huge, classic building girt by tall pillars.

From Time Magazine Archive

To prevent injury or death in case of such a mishap the 20-lb. rotor is girt by an 800-lb. steel shell, 5 in. thick.

From Time Magazine Archive

He stood up and cast open his long black cloak, and behold! he was clad in mail beneath, and girt with a long sword, great-hilted in a sheath of black and silver.

From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien