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girder
English
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /???(?)d?(?)/
- Rhymes: -??(r)d?(r)
Noun
girder (plural girders)
- A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.
- One who girds; a satirist.
Translations
See also
- truss
Anagrams
- Grider, gerrid
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girt
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)
- 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)
- To gird.
- To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.
- To measure the girth of.
Etymology 3
See gird.
Verb
girt
- simple past tense and past participle of gird
Adjective
girt (not comparable)
- (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)
- (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)
- (Britain, rural dialect) Alternative spelling of gurt in the sense 'great'.
Anagrams
- Grit, grit, trig
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