Crossword clues for ungird
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ungird \Un*gird"\, v. t. [1st pref. un- + gird.] To loose the girdle or band of; to unbind; to unload.
He ungirded his camels.
--Gen. xxiv.
32.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To loosen the girdle or band of. 2 To unbind or unload.
Usage examples of "ungird".
In this ungirt hour there imported himself into our life a youngish-looking middle-aged man of the name of Shend, with a blurred face and deprecating eyes.
In it too were the twin sons of Antiope, daughter of Asopus, Amphion and Zethus, and Thebe still ungirt with towers was lying near, whose foundations they were just then laying in eager haste.
Dorath waited, a crafty glint in his eyes, as Taran slowly ungirded the scabbard and thrust the sword into the ground.
The day before, some battalions of Zouaves from Algiers had disembarked in order to reinforce the army on the frontier, and these veterans, accustomed to colonial existence and undiscriminating as to the cause of disturbances, seized the opportunity to intervene in this manifestation, some with bayonets and others with ungirded belts.
It was a strange and not entirely pleasant sensation for a man whose loins had always gone ungirded, but if it was the custom here, he would accept it.