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单词 to gird about
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to gird about
a. transitive. To surround, encircle (the waist, a person about the waist) with a belt or girdle, esp. for the purpose of confining the garments and allowing freer action to the body. Chiefly reflexive or passive; also, after Biblical phrase, to gird one's loins, to gird one's reins, etc. Also to gird up, to gird about.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > belt or girdle
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begirdc1000
belta1400
girdle1582
the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > surround or lie around [verb (transitive)] > surround with
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belayc893
bitrumc1000
umbegoc1300
vironc1440
compass1481
beset1578
entour1623
to fabricate about with1634
surround1635
hearse1646
gird1667
round1698
entwine1796
c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John xxi. 18 Mið-ðy [þu] uere giungra ðu waldes ðec gigyrde..miððy uutudlice ðu bist geuintrad..oðer ðec gyrdeð.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 307 Ge Schulen inan hetter & igurd liggen.
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3149 Sod and girt, stondende, and staf on hond.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1804 Coryneus first vp he stirt, & wyþ a cloþ his body gyrt.
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Tobit v. 5 Tobie..fond a ȝung man stondende, ful faire, gird [1535 Coverdale gyrded vp], and as redi to gon.
1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xii. 11 Ȝe schulen girde about ȝoure reynes.
c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 7054 The lauendres kirtel on she cast, She gird hir, and tukked hir fast.
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 432 b/2 For gyrdle he gyrded hym on his bare flesshe wyth a corde.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings iv. 29 Girde vp thy loynes, and take my staffe in thy hande, and go thy waye.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Luke xii. 35 Let youre loynes be gerded aboute.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1113 Those Leaves They gatherd..And..together sowd, To gird thir waste. View more context for this quotation
1782 W. Cowper Truth in Poems 82 In shirt of hair, and weeds of canvas dressed, Girt with a bell-rope that the Pope has blessed.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 106 He girt his loins, and came.
1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. iv. 25 She girded herself with a white apron.
1872 Earl of Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley South Sea Bubbles vii. 176 They girded him with strange belts.
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to gird about
a. To surround as with a belt; to tie firmly or confine. Also to gird up, to gird in, to gird about, to gird together. Obsolete.
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the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (transitive)] > bind > bind round or about
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1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge ii. v. sig. E2v Then I Catch straight the cords end; and..offer a rude hand, As readie to girde in thy pipe of breath.
1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xii. sig. B3v Sommers greene all girded vp in sheaues. View more context for this quotation
1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. xxii. 16 As timber girt and bound together in a building [etc.] . View more context for this quotation
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados Index to Plate 84 Two stantions of timber, which are girded together in severall places, with wood or iron.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 82 How [they will] gird the Sphear With Centric and Eccentric scribl'd o're. View more context for this quotation
1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 128 For I take the seed..to be a cluster of bubbles wryed up snug, or a bottome of hoops or springs closely girt or knit together.
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