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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
gird
verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
loin
▪ We're just unwinding before girding our loins for London.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ The Romans enclosed the town with walls that still gird the Old City.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A full frontal approach was certain to come, and Carla did her best to be girded against such a confrontation.
▪ By midsummer, both sides were girding for action.
▪ I girded myself for the next day.
▪ Nevertheless, the government is girding for possible trouble.
▪ The first people to leave went off hastily, while others lingered, girding themselves for the streets.
▪ We're just unwinding before girding our loins for London.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gird

Gird \Gird\ (g[~e]rd), n. [See Yard a measure.]

  1. A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.

    Conscience . . . is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels.
    --Tillotson.

  2. A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer.

    I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio.
    --Shak.

Gird

Gird \Gird\, v. t. [See Gird, n., and cf. Girde, v.]

  1. To strike; to smite. [Obs.]

    To slay him and to girden off his head.
    --Chaucer.

  2. To sneer at; to mock; to gibe.

    Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.
    --Shak.

Gird

Gird \Gird\, v. i. To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms.

Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me.
--Shak.

Gird

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.]

  1. To encircle or bind with any flexible band.

  2. To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.

  3. To surround; to encircle, or encompass.

    That Nyseian isle, Girt with the River Triton.
    --Milton.

  4. To clothe; to swathe; to invest.

    I girded thee about with fine linen.
    --Ezek. xvi. 10.

    The Son . . . appeared Girt with omnipotence.
    --Milton.

  5. 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

  6. 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.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
gird

Old English gyrdan "put a belt or girdle around; encircle, surround; invest with attributes," from Proto-Germanic *gurthjan (cognates: Old Norse gyrða, Old Saxon gurdian, Old Frisian gerda, Dutch gorden, Old High German gurtan, German gürten). Related to Old English geard "hedge, enclosure" (see yard (n.1)). Related: Girded; girding.\n\nThroughout its whole history the English word is chiefly employed in rhetorical language, in many instances with more or less direct allusion to biblical passages.

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Wiktionary
gird

Etymology 1 vb. 1 (context transitive English) To bind with a flexible rope or cord. 2 (context transitive English) To encircle with, or as if with a belt. 3 (context transitive English) To prepare oneself for an action. Etymology 2

n. 1 A sarcastic remark. 2 A stroke with a rod or switch. 3 A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To jeer at. 2 (context intransitive English) To jeer.

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gird

  1. 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]

  2. encircle or bind; "Trees girded the green fields" [syn: girth, girt, begird]

  3. put a girdle on or around; "gird your loins" [syn: girdle]

  4. bind with something round or circular [syn: encircle]

  5. [also: girt]

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Gird
You may be looking for the uniform polyhedron sometimes called gird, the great rhombidodecahedron.

Historical Region of North India
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Gird (also can be known as Gopasetra in ancient times, or Gwalior region later) is a region of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. It includes the districts of Bhind, Gwalior, Morena, Sheopur, and Shivpuri. Gwalior is the largest city in the region, and its historic center.

The Chambal and Yamuna rivers form the northwestern and northern boundaries of the region. Hadoti region of Rajasthan lies to the southwest, Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh lies to the south, and Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh lies to the east. Gird is sometimes considered part of Bundelkhand.

Usage examples of "gird".

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!

The largest of those was taller than Alayne, with iron bands girding its dark brown staves.

Suriya was ready to send Aris and Pir out to collect the early summer herbs in the fields far from the city, Gird had decided that the two should live away from the palace, in or near their granges.

If Aris, whom Gird trusted, said he had the healing magery, surely Gird would let him learn to use it.

He did not want to come between Gird and Aris, though he would have liked to convince Gird that his own magery had some good purpose.

Now that she was close, Aris realized what Seri had meant about her being like Gird.

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.

Gird and Fori took the litter again, and the other two men took their bundles.

Gird and Fori scooped up the sticky paste of soaked grain, and ate it from dirty fingers.

Gird, Fori, and Pidi through the woods that lay between Fireoak and the next holding to the east.

She wore a cross sash of blue and green plaid, and a saber girded to her hip.

An unmounted figure emerged from the forest to the west, an ancient sword girded at its side and the chain of a manacle dangling from its wrist.

He wore a breastplate of enameled crimson, and a baldric of black that girded a longsword at his hip.

Jannis girded on his long saber and his tin decoration and strutted up and down.