different between girdle vs girt

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???dl?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????dl?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English girdel, gerdel, gurdel, from Old English gyrdel, from Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz (“girdle, belt”), equivalent to gird +? -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäddel (“belt”), West Frisian gurdle, gurle, gurl (“belt”), Dutch gordel (“belt”), German Gürtel (“belt”), Yiddish ??????? (gartl, “belt”) (whence English gartel), Swedish gördel (“girdle”), Icelandic gyrðill (“girdle”).

Noun

girdle (plural girdles)

1. That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
2. A belt or elasticated corset; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
3. The zodiac; also, the equator.
   • 1799, Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope

     that gems the starry girdle of the year

   • 1782, William Cowper, Expostulation

     from the world's girdle to the frozen pole

   • under the girdle of the world

4. The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.

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5. (mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
6. The clitellum of an earthworm.
7. The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.

Translations

Derived terms

• notch girdle
• peel girdle

Verb

girdle (third-person singular simple present girdles, present participle girdling, simple past and past participle girdled)

1. (transitive) To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
2. (transitive) To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

girdle (plural girdles)

1. (Scotland, Northern English) Alternative form of griddle

References

Anagrams

• Gilder, gilder, girled, glider, gridle, regild, ridgel

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