Gird

[gird]

"Gird your loins and prepare for battle!" Okay, no one says "gird your loins" anymore (which basically means "tighten your pants"), but gird is still used as a verb to mean "get ready for a dangerous situation."

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A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.

Verb
prepare oneself for a military confrontation; "The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"; "troops are building up on the Iraqui border"

Verb
bind with something round or circular

Verb
put a girdle on or around; "gird your loins"

Verb
encircle or bind; "Trees girded the green fields"

n.
A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.

n.
A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer.

v.
To strike; to smite.

v.
To sneer at; to mock; to gibe.

v. i.
To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms.

v. t.
To encircle or bind with any flexible band.

v. t.
To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.

v. t.
To surround; to encircle, or encompass.

v. t.
To clothe; to swathe; to invest.

v. t.
To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest.

Gird

Gird , n. [See Yard a measure.] 1. A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
Conscience . . . is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels.
2. A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer.
I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio.

Gird

Gird, v. t. [See Gird, n., and cf. Girde, v.] 1. To strike; to smite. [Obs.]
To slay him and to girden off his head.
2. To sneer at; to mock; to gibe.
Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.

Gird

Gird, v. i. To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms.
Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me.

Gird

Gird , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Girt or Girded; p. pr. & vb. n. Girding.] [OE. girden, gurden, AS. gyrdan; akin to OS. gurdian, D. gorden, OHG. gurten, G. g'81rten, Icel. gyra, Sw. gjorda, Dan. giorde, Goth. biga'a1rdan to begird, and prob. to E. yard an inclosure. Cf. Girth, n. & v., Girt, v. t.] 1. To encircle or bind with any flexible band. 2. To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc. 3. To surround; to encircle, or encompass.
That Nyseian isle, Girt with the River Triton.
4. To clothe; to swathe; to invest.
I girded thee about with fine linen.
The Son . . . appeared Girt with omnipotence.
5. To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest.
Thou hast girded me with strength.
To gird on, to put on; to fasten around or to one securely, like a girdle; as, to gird on armor or a sword.
Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off.
-- To gird up, to bind tightly with a girdle; to support and strengthen, as with a girdle.
He girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab.
Gird up the loins of your mind.
-- Girt up; prepared or equipped, as for a journey or for work, in allusion to the ancient custom of gathering the long flowing garments into the girdle and tightening it before any exertion; hence, adjectively, eagerly or constantly active; strenuous; striving. "A severer, more girt-up way of living." J. C. Shairp.

A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.

To strike; to smite.

To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms.

To encircle or bind with any flexible band.

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