different between girded vs girt

English

Verb

girded

1. simple past tense and past participle of gird

Anagrams

• dirged, grided, ridged

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???t/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??t/
• Rhymes: -??(r)t

Etymology 1

Alteration of girth (“belt, circumference, brace”).

Noun

girt (plural girts)

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

Related terms

• girder

Etymology 2

From Middle English girten (“gird, encircle”).

Verb

girt (third-person singular simple present girts, present participle girting, simple past and past participle girted)

1. To gird.
2. To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.
3. To measure the girth of.

Etymology 3

See gird.

Verb

girt

1. simple past tense and past participle of gird

Adjective

girt (not comparable)

1. (nautical) 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

girt (third-person singular simple present girts, present participle girting, simple past and past participle girted)

1. (nautical) to capsize because of forces in the cable attaching it to another vessel.

Etymology 4

From Middle English girt, gert, a metathetic variant of gret (“great”). More at great.

Adjective

girt (not comparable)

1. (Britain, rural dialect) Alternative spelling of gurt in the sense 'great'.

Anagrams

• Grit, grit, trig