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gird

verb
/ɡɜːd/UK/ɡɝd/US

Etymology

From Middle English girden, gerden, gürden, from Old English gyrdan (“to put a belt around, to put a girdle around”), from Proto-Germanic *gurdijaną (“to gird”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-. Cognate with West Frisian gurdzje, girdzje, Dutch gorden, German gürten, Swedish gjorda, Icelandic gyrða, Albanian ngërthej (“to tie together by weaving, to bind”).

  1. derived from *gʰerdʰ-✻
  2. inherited from *gurdijaną✻ — “to gird”
  3. inherited from gyrdan
  4. inherited from girden

Definitions

  1. To bind with a flexible rope or cord.

    • The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large.
    • We heere create thee the firſt Duke of Suffolke, / And girt thee with the Sword. Coſin of Yorke
    • Gird thy sword vpon thy thigh, O most mightie: with thy glory and thy maiestie.

  2. To encircle with, or as if with a belt.

    • a castle girded with a moat
    • The lady girt herself with silver chain, from which she hung a golden shear.
    • And he put vpon him the coate, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the Ephod vpon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the Ephod, and bound it vnto him therewith.

  3. To prepare (oneself) for an action.

    • Associate your selues, O ye people, and yee shalbe broken in pieces; and giue eare all ye of farre countreys: gird your selues, and ye shalbe broken in pieces; gird your selues, and ye shalbe broken in pieces.
    • The poet is not trying to conform to any of the old standards of behavior. She is instead focusing her rage and girding herself for battle.
    • […] I was intrigued by the notion of ‘virtual beating’, so I entered the words in the Mamma search engine. I girded myself for the sleaziest sites on the net, the kind that advertise the video of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee uncut, […]
  4. ›+ 6 more definitions

    1. (of a vessel towing another) To be pulled on sideways by its towline, putting it at risk…

      (of a vessel towing another) To be pulled on sideways by its towline, putting it at risk of capsizing.

    2. A sarcastic remark.

      • I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio.

    3. A stroke with a rod or switch.

    4. A severe spasm

      A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.

      • Conscience […] is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels.

    5. To jeer at.

      • Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.

    6. To jeer.

      • Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me.

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Derived

begird, engird, overgird, undergird, ungird, upgird

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA