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girt

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girt 1  (gûrt)
v. girt·ed, girt·ing, girts
v.tr.
1. To gird.
2. To secure with a girth.
3. To measure the girth of.
v.intr.
To measure in girth.

[Variant of gird.]

girt 2  (gûrt)
v.
A past tense and a past participle of gird1.

girt1
vb
a past tense and past participle of gird1
adj
(Transport / Nautical Terms) Nautical moored securely to prevent swinging

girt2
vb
1. (tr) to bind or encircle; gird
2. to measure the girth of (something)


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Anatole went out of the room and returned a few minutes later wearing a fur coat girt with a silver belt, and a sable cap jauntily set on one side and very becoming to his handsome face.
The lady passed him a coin, there was a moment of mumbling and gesticulating, and suddenly she had him with both hands by the red cravat which girt his neck, and was shaking him as a terrier would a rat.
Meanwhile one of the carriers who were in the inn thought fit to water his team, and it was necessary to remove Don Quixote's armour as it lay on the trough; but he seeing the other approach hailed him in a loud voice, "O thou, whoever thou art, rash knight that comest to lay hands on the armour of the most valorous errant that ever girt on sword, have a care what thou dost; touch it not unless thou wouldst lay down thy life as the penalty of thy rashness.
 
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