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v. To gird.

v. To secure with a girth.

v. To measure the girth of.

verb-intransitive. To measure in girth.

v. A past tense and a past participle of gird1.

n. A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.

v. To gird.

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

v. To measure the girth of.

v. Simple past tense and past participle of gird.

imp. & p. p. of gird.

v. To gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of.

adj. 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.

n. Same as girth.

n. Preterit and past participle of gird.

Nautical, having her cables so taut, as a vessel when moored, as to prevent her from swinging to the wind or tide.

In entomology, same as braced, 2.

Same as gird.

n. Same as girth.

n. An obsolete preterit and past participle of gird.

n. A beam; a small girder; a crosspiece in a frame.

To measure or have a girth of: as, the tree girts eight feet.

To measure by a girding-line.

"Two hundred men of lineage came with him, every one of whom wore sword girt to his side, and the foot soldiers in their company were out of number."

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gird    girth   

girted    girting   

gird    encircle    circumference    dimension   

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