gird

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ɡɜːd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɡɝd/

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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”).

gird (third-person singular simple present girds, present participle girding, simple past and past participle girded or girt)

1. (transitive) To bind with a flexible rope or cord.

   The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large.

2. (transitive) To encircle with, or as if with a belt.

   The lady girt herself with silver chain, from which she hung a golden shear.

   Our home is girt by sea... - Advance Australia Fair

3. (transitive, reflexive) To prepare oneself for an action.

• begird
• undergird
• ungird

• girder
• girdle
• gird up one’s loins
• girt

gird (plural girds)

1. A sarcastic remark.
   • Shakespeare

     I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio.

2. A stroke with a rod or switch.
3. A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
   • Tillotson

     Conscience […] is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels.

gird (third-person singular simple present girds, present participle girding, simple past and past participle girded)

1. (transitive) To jeer at.
   • Shakespeare

     Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.

2. (intransitive) To jeer.
   • Shakespeare

     Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me.

• GRID, grid

• gırd

gird

1. big