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

Thus girt with logic, Leon Henderson still had no price weapon last week.

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

Frodo gave way; and Gandalf, as if he were their esquire, knelt and girt the sword-belts about them, and then rising he set circlets of silver upon their heads.

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