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  1. transitive verb To encircle with a belt or band.
  2. transitive verb To fasten or secure (clothing, for example) with a belt or band.
  3. transitive verb To surround. See Synonyms at surround.
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  • As a result of this he was for the first time late at breakfast The presider over the box-office had ascertained that Peter had spent the night out, and had concluded he would have a gird or two at him. —  The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him
  • In this course you will assemble an operational gird-tied PV system and look at various options for mounting, inverters, PV modules and meters. —  Renewable Energy News - RenewableEnergyWorld.com
  • Taking all my meds, feels like I'm putting on armor to gird myself against the day. —  UncleBear
  • Procinctu means "gird for battle - prepare for war." —  LA IMC
  • This portends a further contraction of consumption as those without work drop out of the economy and those with work gird for troubles ahead. —  People's Weekly World Blog
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  1. Middle English girden, from Old English gyrdan; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots.
  2. Middle English girden, to strike.

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  1. from Middle English girden, gerden, gurden, from Anglo-Saxon gyrdan = Old Saxon gurdian, gurdan = Dutch gorden = Middle Low German gorden, Low German gorren = Old High German gurten, curten, Middle High German gurten, gürten, German gürten = Icelandic gyrdha = Swedish gjorda = Danish gjorde, gird; weak verbs, allied to Gothic (Moesogothic) bi-gairdan, incase (cf. English begird) from the same root as Goth, gards = Anglo-Saxon geard, English yard, garth, garden, girth: see garth girth, garden, yard
  2. Sc, also girr; other forms of girth, q. v.
  3. from Middle English girden, gerden, gyrden, gurden, gorden, strike, thrust, smite (frequently with reference to cutting off the head); prob. orig. ‘strike with a rod,’ from gerd, gierd, usually with palatal ʒerd, yerd, a rod, yard: see yard: See gride, a doublet of gird.
  4. from gird v.
 

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