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girt
1[ gurt ]
girt
2[ gurt ]
verb (used with object)
- an uncommon variant of gird 1( def 1 ).
girt
3[ gurt ]
noun
- a variant of girth.
girt
4[ gurt ]
noun
- Carpentry.
- a timber or plate connecting the corner posts of an exterior wooden frame, as a braced frame, at a floor above the ground floor.
- a heavy beam, as for supporting the ends of rafters.
- Printing. (in certain hand presses) one of a pair of leather straps having one end fastened to the bed and the other to the rounce, for drawing the bed under the platen.
girt
1/ ɡɜːt /
verb
- tr to bind or encircle; gird
- to measure the girth of (something)
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Example Sentences
Nevertheless, he was girt with a sword in a ragged scabbard hanging from a frayed and shabby belt of leather.
He wore a gray hermit's cloak, and beneath that a rude, dirty cassock, girt With a cord.
Rapallo itself, as you find on your first morning, is beautiful, chiefly by reason of its sea-girt tower.
When the campaign of 1793 opened she was girt in along her whole frontier by a ring of foes.
In Darley church-yard, near Matlock in Derbyshire, is a yew tree, thirty-three feet in girt.
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