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Definition of Girted
1. girt [v] - See also: girt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Girted
Literary usage of Girted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Biographical Dictionary of Eminent Scotsmen by Robert Chambers, Thomas Thomson (1854)
"sway, and those whom nature lias girted with talents and observation, are exulting
in a brilliant world before them, of which they are enjoying the ..."
2. The Wanderings of the Human Intellect: Or, A New Dictionary of the Various by John Bell, François-André-Adrien Pluquet (1814)
"This soul is girted with understanding,—with a will and memory, and liberty of
action; is capable of knowing, of loving, and adoring her Creator. ..."
3. Hunt's Yachting Magazine (1860)
"... and if the roach is not cut upon the sail so that the crown or centre of it
shall meet this strain, the sail will be girted across, and a slack after ..."
4. Yachts and Yachting: Being a Treatise on Building, Sparring, Canvassing by William Cooper (1873)
"... centre of it shall meet this strain, the sail will be girted across, ...
the sail would be girted across from the clew to the In II' rope despite of all ..."
5. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"Examples 1400-1895, NED 1817 Winding his body round both the tiger and the
tree [the serpent] girted both with all his violence, till the ribs and other ..."
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