girt
1 Americanverb
verb (used with object)
noun
noun
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Carpentry.
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a timber or plate connecting the corner posts of an exterior wooden frame, as a braced frame, at a floor above the ground floor.
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a heavy beam, as for supporting the ends of rafters.
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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.
verb
adjective
verb
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(tr) to bind or encircle; gird
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to measure the girth of (something)
Etymology
Origin of girt
First recorded in 1555–65; alteration of girth
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
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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