Gird vs Girt - What's the difference?
gird | girt | Related terms |
To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
To prepare oneself for an action.
A sarcastic remark.
* Shakespeare
A stroke with a rod or switch.
A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
* Tillotson
To jeer at.
* Shakespeare
To jeer.
* Shakespeare
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.
Girt is a related term of gird.
As verbs the difference between gird and girt
is that gird is to bind with a flexible rope or cord while girt is to gird.As nouns the difference between gird and girt
is that gird is a sarcastic remark 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 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.gird
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) .Verb
- The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large.
- The lady girt herself with silver chain, from which she hung a golden shear.
- Our home is girt by sea... -
Etymology 2
Noun
(en noun)- I thank thee for that gird , good Tranio.
- Conscience is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels.
Verb
(en verb)- Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.
- Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me.
