Gird vs Gord - What's the difference?
gird | gord |
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
(obsolete) An instrument of gaming; a sort of dice.
As a verb gird
is to bind with a flexible rope or cord or gird can be to jeer at.As a noun gird
is a sarcastic remark.As a proper noun gord is
a diminutive of the male given name gordon.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.
gord
English
Alternative forms
* gourdNoun
(en noun)- (Beaumont and Fletcher)