verb · transitive · rare

gird

gird · girds · girded / girt · girding

підперізувати

связать, связывать, насмехаться, окружать

anbinden, rüsten, umringen, angurten

To bind with a flexible rope or cordTo bind with a flexible rope or cord.

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UK/ɡɜːd/US/ɡɝd/

» They were girding for the exam.

Meaning

6 senses

(transitive)To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large.
angurten, anbinden
свя́зыватьsvjázyvatʹ, связа́тьsvjazátʹ
bind with something round or circular
(transitive)To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
a castle girded with a moat
The lady girt herself with silver chain, from which she hung a golden shear.
umringen
подпоя́сыватьpodpojásyvatʹ, подпоя́сатьpodpojásatʹ, окружа́тьokružátʹ
підперізуватиpidperizuvaty
(reflexive, transitive)To prepare (oneself) for an action.
rüsten
prepare oneself for a military confrontation
(intransitive)(of a vessel towing another) To be pulled on sideways by its towline, putting it at risk of capsizing.
(transitive)To jeer at.
насмехатьсяnasmexatʹsja
(intransitive)To jeer.
насмехатьсяnasmexatʹsja

Examples

5 sentences

They were girding for the exam.
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She girded her waist with a belt.
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The company is girding for an initial public offering to raise funds.
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I'll put on a white shirt and gird myself with a silk sash.
ruНадену белую рубаху и подпояшусь шёлковым кушаком.
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Gad, being girded, shall fight before him: and he himself shall be girded backward.
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Translations

6 languages

Українська

By meaning 1

to encircle with, or as if with a belt:

Русский

By meaning 3

to bind with a flexible rope or cord:

to encircle with, or as if with a belt:

To jeer at:

Deutsch

By meaning 3

to bind with a flexible rope or cord:

to encircle with, or as if with a belt:

to prepare oneself:

Origin

From Middle English girden, gerden, gürden, from Old English gyrdan (“to put a belt around

From Middle English girden, gerden, gürden, from Old English gyrdan (“to put a belt around, to put a girdle around”), from Proto-Germanic *gurdijaną (“to gird”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-. Cognate with West Frisian gurdzje, girdzje, Dutch gorden, German gürten, Swedish gjorda, Icelandic gyrða, Albanian ngërthej (“to tie together by weaving, to bind”).

From Middle English girden (“to strike”), from Old English *gyrdan.

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