gird
1to encircle or bind with a belt or band.
to surround; enclose; hem in.
to prepare (oneself) for action: He girded himself for the trial ahead.
to provide, equip, or invest, as with power or strength.
Origin of gird
1Other words for gird
Other words from gird
- gird·ing·ly, adverb
Other definitions for gird (2 of 2)
to gibe; jeer (usually followed by at).
to gibe or jeer at; taunt.
a gibe.
Origin of gird
2Other words from gird
- gird·ing·ly, adverb
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How to use gird in a sentence
Some separatists maintain they will go ahead with the referendum no matter what, and all sides continue girding for a fight.
All factions are girding for new battles, and all are being told that God is on their side.
Israel, by contrast, is once more girding itself for a contest of shameful inevitability.
But The Wall Street Journal reports that Republicans are girding for a potential game changer if Meek drops out.
The industrial instinct which was to receive in the sequel so great a development, was already girding itself up for the trial.
A short history of Rhode Island | George Washington Greene
The conscience that runs to the call of an animal in distress is girding itself with power to do manly work in the world.
Beautiful Joe | Marshall SaundersHe could only satisfy his own reckless desire to be up and doing by girding at all that was being done for him.
The Pioneers | Katharine Susannah PrichardJason promised to obey his tutor's instructions, and, girding on his sword, set out on the journey to his native city.
Stories of Old Greece and Rome | Emilie Kip BakerGirding himself up like a man of courage, he sent this message to the tyrant chief: "The Grant of Glenmorriston waits his doom."
The Mysteries of All Nations | James Grant
British Dictionary definitions for gird (1 of 3)
/ (ɡɜːd) /
to put a belt, girdle, etc, around (the waist or hips)
to bind or secure with or as if with a belt: to gird on one's armour
to surround; encircle
to prepare (oneself) for action (esp in the phrase gird (up) one's loins)
to endow with a rank, attribute, etc, esp knighthood
Origin of gird
1British Dictionary definitions for gird (2 of 3)
/ (ɡɜːd) Northern English dialect /
(when intr, foll by at) to jeer (at someone); mock
(tr) to strike (a blow at someone)
(intr) to move at high speed
a blow or stroke
a taunt; gibe
a display of bad temper or anger (esp in the phrases in a gird; throw a gird)
Origin of gird
2British Dictionary definitions for gird (3 of 3)
/ (ɡɪrd) /
Scot a hoop, esp a child's hoop: Also: girr
Origin of gird
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