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Girt vs Gart - What's the difference?

girt | gart |

As verbs the difference between girt and gart

is that girt is to gird while gart is past tense of gar.

As a noun 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.

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.

    • Anagrams

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    gart

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (gar)
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    gar

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) gar, gare, gere, gore, from (etyl) . Related to (l).

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) spear

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of several fish, of the family , that have long, narrow jaws; garfish

    • Etymology 3

    From (etyl) garren, gerren, from (etyl) gera, gerva'' (Swedish ''''), from (etyl) . Compare ''yare .

    Verb

  • * 1485 , Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur , Book XX:
    • I shall firste begyn at Sandwyche, and there I shall go in my shearte, barefoote, and at every ten myles ende I shall founde and gar make an house of religious, of what order that ye woll assygne me [...].
  • * 1885 , Sir Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night , Night 15:
    • Time gars me tremble. Ah, how sore the baulk! / While Time in pride of strength cloth ever stalk [...].

    Anagrams

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