Girt is a related term of girder.
As nouns the difference between girder and girt
is that girder is a beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure 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 a verb girt is
to gird.
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.
girder
Noun
(
en noun)
A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.
One who girds; a satirist.
girt
English
Etymology 1
Alteration of
Noun
(
en noun)
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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Related terms
* girder
Etymology 2
From (etyl)
Verb
(
en verb)
To gird.
To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.
To measure the girth of.
Etymology 3
See gird
Verb
(head)
(gird)
Adjective
(-)
(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.
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