Girt - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ɡərt|
Brit.
|ɡɜːt|
noun
- A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.
verb
- To gird.
- To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.
- To measure the girth of.
- simple past tense and past participle of gird
- To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.
- To measure the girth of.
- simple past tense and past participle of 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.
Extra examples
...his wounded leg was girted by bandages...
They girt her sons with the weapons of war.
The house was girt round with blackness as a solid wall.
The whole place is secretly girt in with a military force.
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