Definitions for gird

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IPA: /gɜrd/

Gird is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 28 anagrams from letters in gird (dgir).

Definitions for gird

noun

  1. a gibe.

verb (used with object)

  1. to encircle or bind with a belt or band.
  2. to surround; enclose; hem in.
  3. to prepare (oneself) for action:
  4. to provide, equip, or invest, as with power or strength.
  5. to gibe or jeer at; taunt.

verb (used without object)

  1. to gibe; jeer (usually followed by at).

Origin of gird

before 950; Middle English girden, Old English gyrdan; cognate with German gürten

Examples for gird

Does it become you, sir, do you think, to gird at one who is your prisoner?

About has a gird or two at Balzac, but evidently imitates him.

Falstaff says, "men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me."

As we gird our national loins for the mid-term elections in November, here is a brisk primer on the movement.

gird on, as gift from the gods, this sword that is immortal.

Be a soldier, then, and gird thee for the great battle that is at hand.

Let them gird sackcloth on their loins and hide their faces.

When you are dead and gone, let him gird himself for a long pilgrimage.

They warn authorities to gird themselves for the possibility that many more men could surface.

Come, gird up thy loins and answer like a man, if thou canst.

Word Value for gird
Scrable

6

Words with friends

7

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