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Girt vs Gurt - What's the difference?

girt | gurt |

As nouns the difference between girt and gurt

is that girt is a horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts while gurt is a gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.

As adjectives the difference between girt and gurt

is that 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 while gurt is eye dialect of lang=en.

As a verb girt

is to gird.

As an acronym GURT is

Genetic use restriction technology; a generic term for proposed or implemented methods to restrict use of genetically modified plants, by ensuring the sterility of any seeds.

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.
  • *
    • 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

    * *

    gurt

    English

    Etymology 1

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (mining) A gutter or channel for water, hewn out of the bottom of a working drift.
    • (Page)
    (Webster 1913)

    Etymology 2

    From great.

    Alternative forms

    * gert

    Adjective

  • * 1842 , The Sportsman , Volume VI: January to June, page 103,
    • Zo ?e bought a slap-up rod and tackle, and, ev coose, a darn gurt book vull o? vlies — talk?d about ketchin? whackin? trout, and me — ap a salmon the fust time.
  • * 1845 , Douglas Jerrold (editor), Shilling Magazine , Volume II: July to December, page 416,
    • “That was the word,” said Farmer Forder. “Hav?n pocketed the tuppunce, the chap as show?d off the clock opened the case, and let me zee the works of ?un, and wonderful works they was : wheels within wheels, and all sorts o? crinkum-crankums, like a gurt puzzle.”
  • * 1884 , John Coker Egerton, Sussex Folk and Sussex Ways: Stray Studies in the Wealden Formation of Human Nature , page 27,
    • “Well, Tom, where did those birds settle?”
    “Down there, sir, under that gurt oak-tree.”
    Not a bird, however, was to be found.