Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of binding, confining, or retaining with a girdle: usually with up.
- n. The use or office of a girdle in retaining garments; also, something girded on.
- Gibing; taunting; sarcastic.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of gird.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. That with which one is girded; a girdle.
Examples
“But the problem is less in the numbers than in the Corps's general approach - that is, the idea of girding for a "Katrina-like event.”
“– I do require a general structure to work with, one that is flexible but also provides some kind of girding to hold up the characters and ideas and themes and moods I’m working with.”
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“The Palm Beach Post/Zuma Press Chili's restaurants, like this one in Palm Beach Gardens, Fla., are girding for insurance expenses to rise under the new U.S. health-care law.”
“After a long tough winter, many grizzlies, black bears, wolves and cougars are girding themselves for the onslaught of "sportsmen" wielding high-powered rifles in search of "trophies.”
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“Christians and Jews in the USA often cite the religious values girding our democracy.”
“I have never been back to the site and don't know if or when I will again, but I am girding myself for the 9/11 Ground Hog Day, the painful and frightening images that reappear for days, over and over again with a vengeance.”
“The keepers of Wall Street history were girding for the storm as well.”
“Supervalu Inc., the U.S.'s fourth-largest food retailer by sales behind leader Wal-Mart Stores Inc., is girding for lower availability of some key vegetables because of the deep freeze, Mexico's worst in more than 50 years.”
“Francisco; Grimshaw resting his ham-hands on his colossal knees and girding at the pawnbroker to contribute as much to the adventure as he was contributing from his wheat-ranches; Simon”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘girding’.
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some-ing
king, offering, blessing, coping, earnings, trappings, breeding, during, offing, refreshing, sitting, outing and 208 more...
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Luck in the Shadows
Words and phrases from Lynn Flewelling's book, Luck in the Shadows.
belly, barbican, pediment, withers, hirsute, oriel, tabard, telesm, thaumaturgy, switch, spargetaction, towheaded and 125 more...
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