girt

== English == === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ɡɜːt/ (General American) IPA(key): /ɡɝt/ Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)t Homophones: gurt, gert === Etymology 1 === Alteration of girth (“belt, circumference, brace”). ==== Noun ==== girt (plural girts) 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) To gird. To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle. To measure the girth of. ===== Derived terms ===== === Etymology 3 === ==== Verb ==== girt simple past and past participle of gird ==== Adjective ==== girt (not comparable) (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) (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) (UK, rural dialect) Alternative spelling of gurt in the sense 'great'. === Anagrams === Grit, grit, trig