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girt
1[ gurt ]
girt
2[ gurt ]
verb (used with object)
- an uncommon variant of gird 1( def 1 ).
girt
3[ gurt ]
noun
- a variant of girth.
girt
4[ gurt ]
noun
- Carpentry.
- a timber or plate connecting the corner posts of an exterior wooden frame, as a braced frame, at a floor above the ground floor.
- a heavy beam, as for supporting the ends of rafters.
- 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.
girt
1/ ɡɜːt /
verb
- tr to bind or encircle; gird
- to measure the girth of (something)
girt
2/ ɡɜːt /
verb
- a past tense and past participle of gird 1
adjective
- nautical moored securely to prevent swinging
Example Sentences
Australia’s anthem describes the country as “girt by sea.”
In a short epilogue, we glimpse him as an adult, girt with the trappings of fascism and worshipped by the mob.
Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.
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.
Another British diplomat visited Abbottabad, a town near the Kashmir border, and found that “the tribesmen were conspicuous with their rifles over their shoulders, girt with bandoliers and looking thoroughly piratical.”
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