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girt English

Meaning girt meaning

What does girt mean?

— A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.

— To gird. — To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle. — To measure the girth of.

— (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.

— (nautical) to capsize because of forces in the cable attaching it to another vessel.

— (UK, rural dialect) in the sense 'great.

What other words have the same or similar meaning as girt?

girth girt 2 girt 1 tape measure measure tape girdled girder former riverbed encircled

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