girt
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English [edit]
Pronunciation [edit]
Etymology 1 [edit]
Alteration of girth (“belt, circumference, brace”)
Noun [edit]
girt (plural girts)
- A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.
Related terms [edit]
Etymology 2 [edit]
From Middle English girten (“gird, encircle”)
Verb [edit]
girt (third-person singular simple present girts, present participle girting, simple past and past participle girted)
- To gird.
- To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.
- To measure the girth of.
Etymology 3 [edit]
See gird
Verb [edit]
girt
- simple past tense and past participle of gird
Adjective [edit]
girt (not comparable)
- (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.