different between girt vs engirt

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 1

From en- +? girt.

Verb

engirt (third-person singular simple present engirts, present participle engirting, simple past and past participle engirted)

1. (obsolete) To girt; to surround or encircle.

Etymology 2

Inflected forms.

Verb

engirt

1. past participle of engird

Adjective

engirt (comparative more engirt, superlative most engirt)

1. (rare) Encircled, surrounded.
   • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial 2007, p. 64:

     They noted too his cavalier way with the facts of a case, and his ability to twist the most mundane judicial dictum into the pronouncement of some engirt tyrant, whose fortress he and he alone must storm.

Anagrams

• Ginter, Tengri, Tigner, erting, tinger