gird
Part of speech: verb
noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: nautical
transport
Etymology: From Middle English girden, gerden, gürden, from Old English gyrdan (“to put a belt around, to put a girdle around”), from Proto-Germanic *gurdijaną (“to gird”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-. Cognate with West Frisian gurdzje, girdzje, Dutch gorden, German gürten, Swedish gjorda, Icelandic gyrða, Albanian ngërthej (“to tie together by weaving, to bind”).
Inflected forms:
form: girds
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: girding
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: girded
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: girded
pos: verb
tags: past
form: girt
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: girt
pos: verb
tags: past
form: girds
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large.
We heere create thee the firſt Duke of Suffolke, / And girt thee with the Sword. Coſin of Yorke
Gird thy sword vpon thy thigh, O most mightie: with thy glory and thy maiestie.
gloss: To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: a castle girded with a moat
The lady girt herself with silver chain, from which she hung a golden shear.
And he put vpon him the coate, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the Ephod vpon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the Ephod, and bound it vnto him therewith.
Australia's sons, let us rejoice, / For we are young and free / We've golden soil and wealth for toil / Our home is girt by sea
It took me back across the dim gulf of ages to some happy home in dead Imperial Kôr, where this winsome lady girt about with beauty had lived and died, and dying taken her last-born with her to the tomb.
He slithers like a limbo dancer under alder thickets girding the cliff faces. Trailing diamond sprays of ice, he glissades fearlessly across snowfields that plunge into blue infinity.
gloss: To prepare (oneself) for an action.
pos: verb
tags: reflexive
transitive
examples: Associate your selues, O ye people, and yee shalbe broken in pieces; and giue eare all ye of farre countreys: gird your selues, and ye shalbe broken in pieces; gird your selues, and ye shalbe broken in pieces.
The poet is not trying to conform to any of the old standards of behavior. She is instead focusing her rage and girding herself for battle.
[…] I was intrigued by the notion of ‘virtual beating’, so I entered the words in the Mamma search engine. I girded myself for the sleaziest sites on the net, the kind that advertise the video of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee uncut, […]
The remarks came just days after Putin appeared to be girding Russians for a protracted war in Ukraine, saying that his military operation could be a “long-term process”.
gloss: (of a vessel towing another) To be pulled on sideways by its towline, putting it at risk of capsizing.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: On 19 July 2009, the tug North Arm Venture was towing the barge North Arm Express, loaded with fuel and deck cargo, from Toba Inlet to Sechelt Inlet. The tug girded and capsized at approximately 1250 Pacific Daylight Time while making a turn to port at the entrance to Sechelt Rapids .... Girding is defined as a situation where a vessel experiences athwartship forces from its towline. This situation can lead to a capsizing or foundering.
gloss: A sarcastic remark.
pos: noun
examples: I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio.
gloss: A stroke with a rod or switch.
pos: noun
gloss: A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
pos: noun
examples: Conscience […] is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels.
Related words: girder
girdle
gird one's loins
gird up one's loins
girt
Derived words: begird
engird
overgird
undergird
ungird
upgird
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