intransitive verb. undefined

intransitive verb. To gird.

intransitive verb. To secure with a girth.

intransitive verb. To measure the girth of.

intransitive verb. To measure in girth.

noun. Preterit and past participle of gird.

noun. Same as girth.

noun. An obsolete preterit and past participle of gird.

noun. A beam; a small girder; a crosspiece in a frame.

To measure or have a girth of: as, the tree girts eight feet.

To measure by a girding-line.

Same as gird.

Nautical, having her cables so taut, as a vessel when moored, as to prevent her from swinging to the wind or tide.

In entomology, same as braced, 2.

imp. & p. p. of gird.

noun. Same as girth.

transitive verb. To gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of.

adjective. 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.

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.

verb. To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.

verb. To measure the girth of.

verb. Simple past tense and past participle of gird.

"In armor cased; with helmets clasped -- sword girt"