girt
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Noun
- A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.
Verb
- To gird.
- To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.
- To measure the girth of.
Verb
- simple past and past participle of gird
Adjective
- 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.
Verb
- to capsize because of forces in the cable attaching it to another vessel.
Adjective
- Alternative spelling of gurt in the sense 'great'.
Adjective
- (Of a country) To by surrounded by sea.
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