girt

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to…

   A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.

2. 2

   To gird.

3. 3

   To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.

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   1. 4

      To measure the girth of.

   2. 5

      simple past and past participle of gird

      • Eighty Poles, each of one Foot high, were erected for this purpoſe, and very ſtrong Cords of the bigneſs of Packthread were faſtned by Hooks to many Bandages, which the Workmen had girt round my Neck, my Hands, my Body, and my Legs.
   3. 6

      Bound by a cable

      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.

   4. 7

      to capsize because of forces in the cable attaching it to another vessel.

   5. 8

      Alternative spelling of gurt in the sense 'great'.

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