Meaning

4 senses

  1. To gird.

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

  3. To measure the girth of.

  4. To capsize because of forces in the cable attaching it to another vessel.

Examples

2 sentences

  1. Then, girt with guards, within the temple's gate / beneath the centre of the dome she sate.

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  2. Penthesilea's Amazonian train / with moony shields. Bare-breasted, in the van, / girt with a golden zone, the maiden fights with man.

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Origin

Inherited from Middle English girten (“gird, encircle”).

Inherited from Middle English girten (“gird, encircle”).

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Forms

girts, girting, girted, girted
Base formgirt · to girt
3rd person singulargirts
Present participlegirting
Past simplegirted
Past participlegirted

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theygirt
he, she, itgirts

Past simpleLesson

all personsgirted

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave girted
he, she, ithas girted

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill girt

Word family

3 related words
Derivedengirtseagirtungirt

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
girlishgirlygirthgist
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