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

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

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

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