Definitions for GIRD
gɜrdgird

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. arm, build up, fortify, girdverb

   prepare oneself for a military confrontation

   "The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"; "troops are building up on the Iraqi border"

2. girdle, girdverb

   put a girdle on or around

   "gird your loins"

3. gird, encircleverb

   bind with something round or circular

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. girdnoun

   A sarcastic remark.

2. girdverb

   To jeer at.

3. girdverb

   To jeer.

4. Etymology: gyrdan. Cognate with ngërthej.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Girdnoun

   A twitch; a pang: from the sensation caused by a bandage or girdle drawn hard suddenly. This word is now seldom used.

   Etymology: from the verb.

   Sweet king! the bishop hath a kindly gird:
   For shame, my lord of Winchester, relent. William Shakespeare, H. VI.

   They give satisfaction to his mind, and his conscience by this means is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels. John Tillotson, Sermon 2.

   He has the glory of his conscience, when he doth well, to set against the checks and girds of it when he doth amiss. John Goodman, Winter Evening Con.

2. To GIRDverb

   pret. girded, or girt.

   Etymology: gyrdan , Saxon.

   1. To bind round.

   They sprinkled earth upon their heads, and girded their loins with sackcloth. 2 Mac. x. 25.

   2. To put on so as to surround or bind.

   Cords of the bigness of packthread were fastened to bandages, which the workmen had girt round my neck. Gulliver.

   3. To fasten by binding.

   He girt his warlike harness about him. 1 Mac. iii. 3.

   My bow and thunder, my almighty arms
   Gird on, and sword upon thy puissant thigh. John Milton, P. Lost.

   No, let us rise at once, gird on our swords,
   And, at the head of our remaining troops,
   Attack the foe. Joseph Addison, Cato.

   The combatant too late the field declines,
   When now the sword is girded to his loins. Matthew Prior.

   4. To invest.

   Stoop then, and set your knee against my foot;
   And in reguerdon of that duty done,
   I gird thee with the valiant sword of York. William Shakespeare, H. VI.

   The son appear’d,
   Girt with omnipotence. John Milton, Paradise Lost, b. vii.

   5. To dress; to habit; to clothe.

   I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk. Ezek. xvi. 10.

   Tysiphone there keeps the ward,
   Girt in her sanguine gown, by night and day,
   Observant of the souls that pass the downward way. Dryd.

   6. To cover round as a garment.

   These, with what skill they had, together sow’d,
   To gird their waist: vain covering, if to hide
   Their guilt, and dreaded shame! John Milton, Paradise Lost.

   7. To reproach; to gibe.

   Being mov’d, he will not spare to gird the gods. William Shakespeare.

   8. To furnish; to equip.

   So to the coast of Jordan he directs
   His easy steps, girded with snaky wiles. Paradise Regain’d.

   9. To inclose; to incircle.

   That Nyseian isle,
   Girt with the river Triton, where old Cham
   Hid Amalthea, and her florid son
   Young Bacchus, from his stepdame Rhea’s eye. John Milton, P. L.

3. To Girdverb

   To break a scornful jest; to gibe; to sneer.

   Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me: the brain of this foolish compounded clay, man, is not able to invent any thing that tends to laughter more than I invent, or is invented on me: I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. William Shakespeare, Henry IV. p. ii.

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1. gird

   The Moscow-based Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (also 'Group for the Investigation of Reactive Engines and Reactive Flight' and 'Jet Propulsion Study Group') (Russian: Группа изучения реактивного движения, Gruppa izucheniya reaktivnogo dvizheniya, better known for its Russian abbreviation ГИРД, GIRD) was a Soviet research bureau founded in 1931 to study various aspects of rocketry. GIRD launched the first Soviet liquid propellant rocket in August 1933. In November 1933 it was incorporated into the Reactive Scientific Research Institute (Реактивный научно-исследовательский институт, Reaktivnyy nauchno-issledovatel’skiy institut, РНИИ, RNII).

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1. gird

   To gird means to encircle or secure with a belt or band; to surround; to prepare oneself for action or confrontation. It can also refer to the act of investing someone with some form of power or authority.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Girdnoun

   a stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang

2. Girdnoun

   a cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer

3. Gird

   to strike; to smite

4. Gird

   to sneer at; to mock; to gibe

5. Girdverb

   to gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms

6. Girdverb

   to encircle or bind with any flexible band

7. Girdverb

   to make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc

8. Girdverb

   to surround; to encircle, or encompass

9. Girdverb

   to clothe; to swathe; to invest

10. Girdverb

    to prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest

11. Etymology: [See Yard a measure.]

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1. Gird

   Gird is a region of Madhya Pradesh state in central India. It includes the districts of Bhind, Gwalior, Morena, Sheopur, and Shivpuri. Gwalior is the largest city in the region, and its historic center. The Chambal and Yamuna rivers form the northwestern and northern boundaries of the region. Hadoti region of Rajasthan lies to the southwest, Malwa region of Madhya Pradesh lies to the south, and Bundelkhand region of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh lies to the east. Gird is sometimes considered part of Bundelkhand.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Gird

   gėrd, v.i. to gibe, jeer (with at).—v.t. (obs.) to taunt.—n. (obs.) a sneer. [A.S. gyrd, gierd, rod.]

2. Gird

   gėrd, v.t. to bind round: to make fast by binding: to surround: to clothe, furnish:—pa.t. and pa.p. gird′ed or girt.—n. Gird′er, one of the principal pieces of timber in a floor binding the others together: in engineering, any simple or compound beam of wood, iron, or steel used to support joisting, walls, arches, &c., in various kinds of bridges.—Gird one's self, to tuck up loose garments under the girdle: to brace the mind for any trial or effort. [A.S. gyrdan; cf. Ger. gürten, garden, Eng. yard.]

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1. GIRD

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   The numerical value of GIRD in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

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   The numerical value of GIRD in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=GIRD
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Gird
3. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=GIRD
4. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gird
5. ^ ChatGPT
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6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/GIRD
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=GIRD
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=GIRD