ungirt

[ uhn-gurt ]

/ ʌnˈgɜrt /

having a girdle loosened or removed.

slack; relaxed; not taut or pulled together: ungirt thinking.

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First recorded in 1250–1300, ungirt is from the Middle English word ungyrt. See un-¹, girt¹

ungird

[ uhn-gurd ]

/ ʌnˈgɜrd /

to loosen or remove a girdle or belt from.

to loosen or remove by unfastening a belt: to ungird a sword.

before 900; Middle English ungirden, Old English ungyrdan; see un-², gird¹; cognate with German entgürten

When there was work to be done she never could rest with “unlit lamp and ungirt loin.”
Mary Wollstonecraft|Elizabeth Robins Pennell
Bareheaded and ungirt, the candidate is conducted before the dread tribunal.
Anne of Geierstein, Volume I (of 2)|Sir Walter Scott
Before the gate he went to meet the messenger, who ungirt his sword and laid it from his hand.
The Nibelungenlied|Unknown
And St. Laurence ungirt his robe, and giving his girdle to the sacristan, bade him show it in proof of what he told.
Walks in Rome|Augustus J.C. Hare

Alike in life and in art he hated sloth,—the slovenliness of the "ungirt loin" and of the indecisive touch.
Robert Browning|C. H. Herford