girt.
A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.
Meaning & usage
A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.
Where this word comes from
Alteration of girth (“belt, circumference, brace”).
To gird.
To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.
To measure the girth of.
Where this word comes from
Inherited from Middle English girten (“gird, encircle”).
Bound by a cable; used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.
to capsize because of forces in the cable attaching it to another vessel.
(Of a country) To by surrounded by sea.
Where this word comes from
Ellipsis of girt by sea, from the Australian National Anthem
simple past and past participle of gird
Alternative spelling of gurt in the sense 'great'.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English girt, gert, a metathetic variant of gret (“great”). More at great.
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