Gird
[gɜːd] or [ɡɝd]
Definition
(n.) A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
(n.) A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer.
(v.) To strike; to smite.
(v.) To sneer at; to mock; to gibe.
(v. i.) To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms.
(v. t.) To encircle or bind with any flexible band.
(v. t.) To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.
(v. t.) To surround; to encircle, or encompass.
(v. t.) To clothe; to swathe; to invest.
(v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Girdle, bind round, bind with a girdle.[2]. Surround, encircle, encompass, enclose, environ, engird, begird.[3]. Clothe, invest, equip, furnish.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Surround, encircle, hem, environ, belt, enclose, engirdle, encompass, girdle,begird
ANT:Disclose, open, expand, disencircle, disentangle, ungird
Checker: Mortimer
Definition
v.i. to gibe jeer (with at).—v.t. (obs.) to taunt.—n. (obs.) a sneer.
v.t. to bind round: to make fast by binding: to surround: to clothe furnish:—pa.t. and pa.p. gird′ed or girt.—n. Gird′er one of the principal pieces of timber in a floor binding the others together: in engineering any simple or compound beam of wood iron or steel used to support joisting walls arches &c. in various kinds of bridges.—Gird one's self to tuck up loose garments under the girdle: to brace the mind for any trial or effort.
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Examples
- Gird up thy loins, and seek out this Wilfred, the son of Cedric. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- He's happen gone to visit some poor body in a sick gird, or he's happen hunting down vermin in another direction. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Tired wayfarer, gird up thy loinslook upward, march onward. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- He has learned that way of girding at us in France, I suppose. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- The escorted governed his own horse, but a loose line was attached to his bridle, the end of which one of the patriots kept girded round his wrist. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- I was girded, walled in, vaulted over, by seven-fold barriers of loneliness. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- He had a blue cloak, and was always girt with his sword, hilt and belt being of gold and silver. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- And the difference seemed symbolic; the mother's life had been as closely girt as her figure. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
Checker: Marsha