Girded vs Girt - What's the difference?
girded | girt |
(gird)
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.
As verbs the difference between girded and girt
is that girded is past tense of gird while girt is to gird.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.girded
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(head)Anagrams
* *gird
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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.