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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gird \Gird\ (g[~e]rd), noun [See {Yard} a measure.]
1. A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
Conscience . . . is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels. --Tillotson.
2. A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer.
I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gird \Gird\, verb (used with an object) [See {Gird}, noun, and cf. {Girde}, v.]
1. To strike; to smite. [Obs.]
To slay him and to girden off his head. --Chaucer.
2. To sneer at; to mock; to gibe.
Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gird \Gird\, verb (used without an object) To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms.
Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me. --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Gird \Gird\ (g[~e]rd), verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Girt}or {Girded}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Girding}.] [OE. girden, gurden, AS. gyrdan; akin to OS. gurdian, D. gorden, OHG. gurten, G. g["u]rten, Icel. gyr[eth]a, Sw. gjorda, Dan. giorde, Goth. biga['i]rdan to begird, and prob. to E. yard an inclosure. Cf. {Girth}, noun & v., {Girt}, verb (used with an object)]
1. To encircle or bind with any flexible band.
2. To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc.
3. To surround; to encircle, or encompass.
That Nyseian isle, Girt with the River Triton. --Milton.
4. To clothe; to swathe; to invest.
I girded thee about with fine linen. --Ezek. xvi. 10.
The Son . . . appeared Girt with omnipotence. --Milton.
5. To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest.
Thou hast girded me with strength. --Ps. xviii. 39.
{To gird on}, to put on; to fasten around or to one securely, like a girdle; as, to gird on armor or a sword.
Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. --1 Kings xx. 11.
{To gird up}, to bind tightly with a girdle; to support and strengthen, as with a girdle.
He girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab. --1 Kings xviii. 46.
Gird up the loins of your mind. --1 Pet. i. 13.
{Girt up}; prepared or equipped, as for a journey or for work, in allusion to the ancient custom of gathering the long flowing garments into the girdle and tightening it before any exertion; hence, adjectively, eagerly or constantly active; strenuous; striving. ''A severer, more girt-up way of living.'' --J. C. Shairp.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
gird
verb
1: prepare oneself for a military confrontation; "The U.S. is girding for a conflict in the Middle East"; "troops are building up on the Iraqui border" [syn: {arm}, {build up}, {fortify}] [ant: {disarm}]
2: encircle or bind; "Trees girded the green fields" [syn: {girth}, {girt}, {begird}]
3: put a girdle on or around; "gird your loins" [syn: {girdle}]
4: bind with something round or circular [syn: {encircle}] [also: {girt}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
81 Moby Thesaurus words for "gird": band, bandage, beef up, begird, belt, belt in, bend, beset, bind, bind up, bolster, brace, brace up, bundle, buttress, case harden, chain, cinch, cincture, circle, confirm, dispose, do up, encincture, encircle, encompass, engird, ensphere, fleer, flout, forearm, fortify, gibe, girdle, girt, girth, harden, hem, invigorate, jeer, jest, lace, lash, leash, loop, nerve, prepare, prop, ready, refresh, reinforce, reinvigorate, restrengthen, ring, rope, round, shore up, sneer, splice, steel, stiffen, strap, strengthen, support, sustain, swaddle, swathe, temper, tie, tie up, toughen, truss, twine around, undergird, whet the knife, wire, wrap, wrap up, wreathe, wreathe around, zone
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