English
girt
Pronunciation Noun

girt (plural girts)

  1. A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.
Related terms Verb

girt (girts, present participle girting; past and past participle girted)

  1. To gird.
  2. To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.
  3. To measure the girth of.
Verb
  1. Simple past tense and past participle of gird
Adjective

girt (not comparable)

  1. (nautical) Bound by a cable; used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.
Verb

girt (girts, present participle girting; past and past participle girted)

  1. (nautical) to capsize because of forces in the cable attaching it to another vessel.
Adjective

girt (not comparable)

  1. (UK, rural dialect) Alternative spelling of gurt in the sense 'great'.


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