different between girt vs airt

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

English

Etymology

From Scots airt

Verb

airt (third-person singular simple present airts, present participle airting, simple past and past participle airted)

1. (Scotland) To guide; to direct.

Anagrams

• Atri, Rati, Rita, tiar

Irish

Noun

airt

1. inflection of art:
   1. vocative/genitive singular
   2. nominative/dative plural

Mutation

Scots

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e?rt/, /?rt/

Etymology 1

From northern Middle English art.

Noun

airt (plural airts)

1. quarter of the compass
2. direction, area

Verb

airt (third-person singular present airts, present participle airtin, past airtit, past participle airtit)

1. (transitive) to guide, direct
2. (intransitive) to direct one's way; to make for

Etymology 2

From early Middle English art, from Old French art, from Latin art, ars.

Noun

airt (plural airts)

1. art
2. skill

References

• The Dictionary of the Scots Language