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Definition of Girting
1. girt [v] - See also: girt
Lexicographical Neighbors of Girting
Literary usage of Girting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1854)
"In Lancashire, at Holker Hall, there is an oak 75 ft. high, with a trunk girting
21 ft: the diameter of the head is 66 ft. ..."
2. Forestry; a journal of forest and estate management by Francis George Heath, 1843-1913 ed (1880)
"Among other fine specimens of the coniferous family to be seen in the pinetum,
the most noteworthy are Cupressus Lawsoniana, thirty-two feet high, girting ..."
3. The Repertory of Patent Inventions: And Other Discoveries and Improvements (1809)
"The method of using the said machinery doth consist in a workman placing the
paper-moulds in succession on the said web or girting, or chains or rollers, ..."
4. Retrospect of Philosophical, Mechanical, Chemical, and Agricultural Discoveries (1810)
"A workman places the moulds in succession upon that end of the •web or girting
which is beneath the smaller vat j these pass on to receive the flow of pulp, ..."
5. The Eastern, Arboretum: Or, Register of Remarkable Trees, Seats, Gardens by James Grigor (1841)
"Also a weeping birch, girting fourteen feet ten inches,—a noble and graceful
object, seldom found in England of any great size. ..."
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