girtn.
/ɡəːt/, U.S. /ɡərt/ 1. † b. A surgical bandage. Obsolete.
a. A saddle-girth; = girth n. 1. Obsolete exc. dialect.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > girth
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girt1563
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girse1591
saddle banda1604
mail girt1607
saddle girt1613
saddle girth1635
mail-girth1673
girding1680
body girth1688
roller1688
wombtack1729
breast-girth1805
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cinch1866
latigo1873
1563 W. Fulke Goodle Gallerye Causes Meteors iii. f. 30v Her horse laye dead with his bridle and girtes vntied.
a1625 J. Fletcher Wit without Money (1639) ii. sig. D4 Ile give um leave to cut my girts, and flay me.
1645 J. Milton On University Carrier i, in Poems 28 Here lies old Hobson, Death hath broke his girt, A[nd] here alas, hath laid him in the dirt.
1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 432 It is with great difficulty they are first brought to suffer the girts to be put round their bodies.
1795 ‘P. Pindar’ Pindariana 231 Rapture's a Charger—often breaks his girt, Runs off, and flings his rider in the dirt.
1867 W. F. Rock Jim an' Nell lxxiv. 22 An' girts, a guidestrap, hayvor seed.
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > bandage > [noun]
swathec1050
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whip1504
trusser1519
swath-band1556
swaddlea1569
winding band1582
deligature1583
ligation1598
bandage1599
fettle1599
ligament1599
selvage1599
swathe1615
swaddlings1623
anadesm1658
fasciation1658
girt1676
platysma1684
flannels1723
fillet1802
sealing1862
1676 R. Wiseman Severall Chirurg. Treat. vii. v. 487 The most common way of Bandage is by that of the Girt, which Girt hath a Boulster in the middle, and the ends are tackt firmly together.
1743 tr. L. Heister Gen. Syst. Surg. I. i. 169 There must also be fastened another Napkin, Sling, or Girt.
c. Printing. (See quot. 1683, and cf. girth n. 1d.)
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society > communication > printing > printing machine or press > parts of printers or presses > [noun] > carriage > thongs of carriage
girt1683
girth1823
1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 72 Girts are Thongs of Leather, cut out of the Back of an Horse-hide... Two of them are used to carry the Carriage out and in.
2.
a. A small girder. Now only U.S.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > framework of building > [noun] > joist > support for
raisingeOE
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girt1579
bridle1587
girder1611
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sommier1623
raising plate1637
trimmer1654
main beama1657
corbel1679
dwarf1718
brick trimmer1774
summer stonea1782
tail-trimmer1823
wood brick1842
1579 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 311 ij girts xj foote longe, vj vnch thicke, ix vnch brod.
1665 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 531 For girt, sparrs, ioists..and carriage of timbers for the Library roofe.
1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 405 Each pier is composed of seven sticks of oak timber, united by a cap-piece, strong braces and girts.
1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Girt, a small girder, used in roofs or bridge-frames.
b. = fillet n.1 11b.
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1823 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 585.
1842 in G. W. Francis Dict. Arts
3. figurative.1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. 24 For long before Boniface his time Archbishops were swolne beyond the girt of the Canon.
a. = girth n. 3. Also, in technical use, measurement across or around a surface which is not flat (e.g. a moulded cornice) taking into account all elevations and depressions.
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the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > thickness > [noun] > girth
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bigness1615
girth1644
girt1647
garth1684
1664 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) I. 156 The said Cornice..to be measured by the girt.
1679 J. Evelyn Sylva (ed. 3) xxii. 106 The Girt, or Circumference below is thirteen foot.
a1701 H. Maundrell Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 140 I measur'd one of the largest, and found it twelve yards six inches in girt, and yet sound.
1716 J. Addison Free-holder No. 22. ⁋2 He is a lusty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girt.
1793 Trans. Soc. Arts (ed. 2) 4 227 The girt of the old tree..is five feet six inches.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 627 The number of square feet produced, by multiplying the girts of the roof by the length of the slates at the eaves.
1828 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) II. 87 In these articles, the content of a roof is found by multiplying the length of the ridge by the girt over from eaves to eaves.
1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. ii. iii. 640 Cornices are measured by obtaining their girt, and multiplying by their length for the quantity of moulded work in them.
1846 J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. App. 446 If the girt be taken in inches, and the length in feet [etc.].
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 438/1 Surfaces under 6 in. in width or girt are called 6 in.
b. (See quot. 1842; loosely used for ‘quarter-girt’.)
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1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 979 Girt, in timber measuring, according to some, is taken at one fourth of the circumference of the tree.
Compounds
C1. Simple attributive.
girt-buckle n.
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1701 London Gaz. No. 3746/4 Lost..a brown Gelding above 14 hands,..the Hair chafed off by the Girt-buckle.
girt-line n.
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1720 J. Strype Stow's Surv. of London (rev. ed.) II. vi. v. 67/1 To give the Bounds, or Girt Line, of this Parish, I shall begin at Cecill-street.
girt-measure n.
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1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 78 Girt measure of Timber is the best for the buyer, because there is more in the circular measure then in the square.
girt-piece n.
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1770–4 A. Hunter Georgical Ess. (1804) II. 195 The girt-pieces six inches by five.
girt-spot n.
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1688 London Gaz. No. 2314/4 No white, unless some Saddle or Girt Spots.
girt-web n.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for girths
girth-web1381
garth-web?1523
skein1566
girt-web1655
girse-web1697
girth-webbing1794
1655 E. Terry Voy. E.-India 154 Those Coaches will carry four persons..but two may lye at ease..upon quilts..upheld by girt-webb, with which they are bottom'd.
girt-wheel n.
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1841 W. Savage Dict. Art of Printing Wheel. Also called girt wheel, and drum; a cylinder of elm wood, with two flat broad grooves turned in it on which the two girts wind and unwind alternately, as the carriage is run in and out.
C2. Instrumental. Cf. girth-buckle n. at girth n. Compounds 1a, girth-galled adj. at girth n. Compounds 1b, girth-web n.
girt-galled adj. Cf.
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1701 London Gaz. No. 3693/4 Lost..a bay Gelding about 14 hands,..and a little Girt-galled.
girt-marked adj.
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1687 London Gaz. No. 2282/8 A dark bay brown punch Nag..with saddle marks, and girt mark'd under the Belly.
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girtadj.
/ɡəːt/, U.S. /ɡərt/ 1. In sense of the verb.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [adjective] > fastened in specific way > belted, girdled, or pulled in
succinct1604
girdleda1817
girt1870
tie-belted1976
1791 W. Cowper Let. 23 June (1982) III. 530 It is an old house with girt casement windows.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise I. i. 413 And how herself, with girt gown, carefully She went betwixt the heaps.
1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 173 Her panting breast and girt-up gown.
2. Nautical. (See quots.)
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [adjective] > stretched tightly (of cable)
girt1627
1627 J. Smith Sea Gram. vii. 30 Gert, is when the Cable is so taught that vpon the turning of a tide, a Ship cannot goe ouer it.
1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. at Girding-girt The Seamen say a Ship is Girt or hath a Girding-girt, when her Cable being so tite, or strained, that upon the turning of the Tide she cannot go over it with her Stern-post, but will lie a-cross the Tides.
1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Girt, the situation of a ship which is moored so strait by her cables, extending from the hause to two distant anchors, as to be prevented from swinging or turning about.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk.
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girtv.
/ɡəːt/, U.S. /ɡərt/ Now rare.
1. transitive. = gird v.1 in various senses.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > surround or lie around [verb (transitive)]
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belieOE
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to go about ——OE
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overgirda1500
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c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 5118 I bid.. þat he..pas fro this place o payn of his lyfe,..And gyrt on no grete wordis to greue vs no more.
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 32 If the enimy beseege vs..preuent forreine aide, girt in the city [etc.].
1602 J. Marston Hist. Antonio & Mellida i. sig. B3v Weele girt them with an ample waste of loue.
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes ii. §22. 160 Girting and besieging their townes and cities, so as they can not go abroad.
1683 W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Witt against Wisdom 103 They'l pick a quarrel..for such poor provocations, as the girting on a coat the wrong way.
1688 London Gaz. No. 2311/1 The Inauguration Ceremony, which consisted only in Girting the Grand Signior with a Sword.
1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 44/1 The middle parts, which girt and surround the Wall.
1799 Naval Chron. 2 177 The whole was by them girted and surrounded.
1823 Examiner 106/2 [It] looks like a bright cincture girting the earth.
1895 Daily News 13 Feb. 6/6 The primeval forest which girts the mountain.
2. To secure with a girth (cf. girth v. 3).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [verb (transitive)] > girth > secure saddle with
girt1663
girtha1821
cinch1866
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 8 Hasten with the Packet-Maile to the Post Office, be it never so ill girted, whereby it oft falls in the mid-way?
1841 G. Catlin Lett. N. Amer. Indians II. xli. 60 A buffalo skin girted on its back.
3.
a. To surround with a cord or measuring-line in order to ascertain the girth; to take the girth of.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > measurement of other dimensions > measure other dimensions [verb (transitive)] > take the girth of
girt1727
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 81 Measured flat in square yeards, without girting the work with a Line.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Felling By girting the middle of the tree with a line and taking a quarter part of the girt for the square.
1828 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) II. 86 For the Surrounding Architrave, girt it about the uppermost part for its length [etc.].
1883 R. Haldane Workshop Receipts 2nd Ser. 438/1 Surface painting is measured by the superficial yd., girting every part of the work covered.
b. intransitive. To take a measurement by drawing a string round the object to be measured. Said also of the string.
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > measurement of other dimensions > measure other dimensions [verb (intransitive)] > ascertain girth using a measuring line
girt1825
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 627 All mouldings in plaster work are measured..by girting over the mouldings with a line.
1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 642 The dimensions must be taken with a line, that girts over the mouldings, breaks, etc.
4. Of trees, etc.: To measure (so much) in girth or girt (= girth v. 5).
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the world > relative properties > measurement > measurement of length > measurement of other dimensions > measure other dimensions [verb (intransitive)] > ascertain girth using a measuring line > to measure (so much) in girth
girt1750
girth1858
1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 175 This divides into five branches, each equal to a large tree, some of them girting round about eight feet.
1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 262 There are larches..which at five feet high girted, in 1792, full eight feet.
1828 O. Gregory Hutton's Course Math. (ed. 9) II. 88 The cornice, which girts 8½ inches.
1858 O. W. Holmes Autocrat of Breakfast-table xii. 334 The tree ‘girts’ eighteen and a half feet, and spreads over a hundred.
5. to girt against: to press against (said of a ship's cable). [Compare girt adj. 2 and gird v.1 7.]
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > anchoring equipment > [verb (transitive)] > press against (of cable)
to girt against1794
1794 D. Steel Elements & Pract. Rigging & Seamanship II. 310 The ship, driving to leeward..causes the cable to girt against the lee bow.
Derivatives
ˈgirting n. (attributive in quots.) girting-place: (a) that part of a horse's body where the girth is worn; (b) that part of the trunk where a tree is girthed or measured; girting-stead = girdlestead n.
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the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > barrel or middle of horse > part of belly
fore-bowels1566
girting1607
girth1830
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 144 They which are small in their girting steade about their loynes, doe much loue hunting.
1676 London Gaz. No. 1108/4 A large brown bay Mare..with a hole on her ribs..near the girting place.
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Felling To know the Value of a Tree standing, you may girt it, allowing for the Bark, and so much as you think it will measure less in the girting Place than at the Butt [etc.].
ˈgirting adj.
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1867 D. G. Mitchell Rural Stud. 190 But with us, who have no girting walls [etc.].
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