Crossword clues for girt
girt
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gird \Gird\ (g[~e]rd), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Girtor Girded; p. pr. & vb. n. Girding.] [OE. girden, gurden, AS. gyrdan; akin to OS. gurdian, D. gorden, OHG. gurten, G. g["u]rten, Icel. gyr[eth]a, Sw. gjorda, Dan. giorde, Goth. biga['i]rdan to begird, and prob. to E. yard an inclosure. Cf. Girth, n. & v., Girt, v. t.]
To encircle or bind with any flexible band.
To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.
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To surround; to encircle, or encompass.
That Nyseian isle, Girt with the River Triton.
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To clothe; to swathe; to invest.
I girded thee about with fine linen.
--Ezek. xvi. 10.The Son . . . appeared Girt with omnipotence.
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To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest.
Thou hast girded me with strength.
--Ps. xviii. 39.To gird on, to put on; to fasten around or to one securely, like a girdle; as, to gird on armor or a sword.
Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
--1 Kings xx. 11.To gird up, to bind tightly with a girdle; to support and strengthen, as with a girdle.
He girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab.
--1 Kings xviii. 4 -
Gird up the loins of your mind.
--1 Pet. i. 13.Girt up; prepared or equipped, as for a journey or for work, in allusion to the ancient custom of gathering the long flowing garments into the girdle and tightening it before any exertion; hence, adjectively, eagerly or constantly active; strenuous; striving. ``A severer, more girt-up way of living.''
--J. C. Shairp.
Girt \Girt\, imp. & p. p. of Gird.
Girt \Girt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Girted; p. pr. & vb. n. Girting.] [From Girt, n., cf. Girth, v.] To gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of; as, to girt a tree.
We here create thee the first duke of Suffolk,
And girt thee with the sword.
--Shak.
Girt \Girt\, a. (Naut.) Bound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.
Girt \Girt\ (g[~e]rt), n. Same as Girth.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400 as alternative form of gird; also past tense and past participle of gird.
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts. Etymology 2
vb. 1 To gird. 2 To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle. 3 To measure the girth of. Etymology 3
(context nautical English) Bound by a cable; used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide. v
(en-past of: gird)
WordNet
See gird
v. prepare oneself for a military confrontation; "The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"; "troops are building up on the Iraqui border" [syn: arm, build up, fortify] [ant: disarm]
encircle or bind; "Trees girded the green fields" [syn: girth, girt, begird]
put a girdle on or around; "gird your loins" [syn: girdle]
bind with something round or circular [syn: encircle]
[also: girt]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
In architecture or structural engineering, a girt is a horizontal structural member in a framed wall. Girts provide lateral support to the wall panel, primarily, to resist wind loads.
May also be known as a sheeting rail.
A comparable element in roof construction is a purlin.
Usage examples of "girt".
To think how when I find this lucky star, And stand beneath it, like the Wise of old, I shall mount upward on a golden car, Girt round with glory unto worlds afar, While Earth amazed the wonder shall behold, That bears me unto happiness untold!
Study this rather, that you may receive praise and promotion at our hands, and go forth, with Divine help, on this Indiction, to such and such a Province, adorned with the pomp of the Cancelli, and girt about with a certain proud gravity.
Opened, the upper part of the garment fell in loose folds around his waist, girt in by the plain rope cincture tied around his waist, leaving his upper body exposed.
Be drest in pure virgyn garments fromme head to heel, and girt with a red girdel of pleached corde, and shodde in blue.
A branch of girt and goodliness, straightway Her spring is turned on herself, and wried And knotted like some gall or veiney wen.
Girt piqued himself far less upon such sentimental qualifications, than upon his skill in cosmetics, and had less respect for unadulterated morals, than unadulterated powder.
The loins of the warrior were girt about with heavy folds of a dark-coloured tappa, hanging before and behind in clusters of braided tassels, while anklets and bracelets of curling human hair completed his unique costume.
I could not delight the savages more than by conforming to their style of dress, I removed from my person the large robe of tappa which I was accustomed to wear over my shoulders whenever I sallied into the open air, and remained merely girt about with a short tunic descending from my waist to my knees.
Each crocodile was girt with massive gold And polished stones, that with their wearers grew: But one there was who waxed beyond the rest, Wore kinglier girdle and a kingly crown, Whilst crowns and orbs and sceptres starred his breast.
But now he saw that supernal Kadath in its cold waste is indeed girt with dark wonders and nameless sentinels, and that the Other Gods are of a surety vigilant in guarding the mild, feeble gods of earth.
And he arose and did on his hauberk and basnet, and girt his sword to his side, and went forth, a-foot as before.
But, undismayed, the Legionaries armed themselves, girt on their war-gear and, cool-disciplined under fire, waited the order to leap into the sea.
It took me back across the dim gulf of ages to some happy home in dead Imperial Kor, where this winsome lady girt about with beauty had lived and died, and dying taken her last-born with her to the tomb.
Single-handed against fivescore, girt by the Arctic winter, far from his own, he felt the prompting of his heritage, the desire to possess, the wild danger--love, the thrill of battle, the power to conquer or to die.
Ethereal mountains shone around--a Fane Stood in the midst, girt by green isles which lay On the blue sunny deep, resplendent far away.