Dirt vs Girt - What's the difference?
dirt | girt |
soil or earth
A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance
Previously unknown facts, or the invented "facts", about a person; gossip
Meanness; sordidness.
* Melmoth
In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.
A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.
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(gird)
(nautical) 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.
As nouns the difference between dirt and girt
is that dirt is soil or earth while girt is a horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.As verbs the difference between dirt and girt
is that dirt is to make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty while girt is to gird.As an acronym DIRT
is Deposit Interest Retention TaxAs an adjective girt is
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.dirt
English
Alternative forms
* (obsolete)Noun
(en-noun)- The reporter uncovered the dirt on the businessman by going undercover.
- honours thrown away upon dirt and infamy
