Definitions for girts

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girts girt

Spelling: [gurt]

IPA: /gɜrt/

Girts is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 6 points.

You can make 56 anagrams from letters in girts (girst).

Definitions for girts

noun

1. Carpentry. a timber or plate connecting the corner posts of an exterior wooden frame, as a braced frame, at a floor above the ground floor. a heavy beam, as for supporting the ends of rafters.
2. Printing. (in certain hand presses) one of a pair of leather straps having one end fastened to the bed and the other to the rounce, for drawing the bed under the platen.
3. a gibe.

verb

1. a simple past tense and past participle of gird1 .

verb (used with object)

1. gird1 (def 1).
2. to encircle or bind with a belt or band.
3. to surround; enclose; hem in.
4. to prepare (oneself) for action:
5. to provide, equip, or invest, as with power or strength.
6. to gibe or jeer at; taunt.

verb (used without object)

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

noun, verb (used with object)

1. girth.

Origin of girts

First recorded in 1555-65; alteration of girth

Examples for girts

He saw in that instant that they were girt with a hastening and terrible death.

The whole territory of the Netherlands was girt with forests.

Your hand has girt it round about with cliffs and peopled it with a peaceful race.

But the majority made for the hills, which girt the town like giants.

Nobody could doubt that he had wandered in Siberian forests, naked and girt with a chain.

Then girt him Beowulf in martial mail, nor mourned for his life.

Then he prepared himself to go, and girt on his sword, talking earnestly the while.

I's only a laal man, but I's got a girt appetite, thoo sees.

Remember we have the Council to face, and they are all girt for battle.

He turned to the girt who sat on the keel, silent, looking away to sea.