[gurt] 
| 1. | Carpentry.
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| 2. | 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. |
[gurd] | 1. | to encircle or bind with a belt or band. |
| 2. | to surround; enclose; hem in. |
| 3. | to prepare (oneself) for action: He girded himself for the trial ahead. |
| 4. | to provide, equip, or invest, as with power or strength. |
[gurd] | 1. | to gibe; jeer (usually fol. by at). |
| 2. | to gibe or jeer at; taunt. |
| 3. | a gibe. |
[gurth] | 1. | the measure around anything; circumference. |
| 2. | a band that passes underneath a horse or other animal to hold a saddle in place, esp. one having a buckle at each end for fastening to straps running from under the flaps of the saddle. |
| 3. | something that encircles; a band or girdle. |
| 4. | to bind or fasten with a girth. |
| 5. | to girdle; encircle. |
| gird 1 (gûrd) v. gird·ed or girt (gûrt), gird·ing, girds v. tr.
To prepare for action: "Men still spoke of peace but girded more sternly for war" (W. Bruce Lincoln). [Middle English girden, from Old English gyrdan; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots.] |
| girt 1 (gûrt) v. girt·ed, girt·ing, girts v. tr.
To measure in girth. [Variant of gird1.] |
| girt 2 (gûrt) v. A past tense and a past participle of gird1. |