girt

Plural: girts

Verb

Verb Forms: girted, girting, girts

• To encircle or secure with a band; an archaic form of gird.
• prepare oneself for a military confrontation
• put a girdle on or around
• bind with something round or circular
• To gird.
• To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.
• To measure the girth of.
• simple past and past participle of gird
• to capsize because of forces in the cable attaching it to another vessel.

Noun

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

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.
• Alternative spelling of gurt in the sense 'great'.

Examples

• He tried to girt his strategy around the triple word score, but the letters wouldn’t cooperate.

Synonyms

arm, build up, encircle, fortify, gird, girdle

Antonyms

disarm

Related Words

girder

Anagrams of girt