| 单词 | to gird together |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto gird together ΘΚΠ 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 uptrussc1340 betiea1556 circumlige1572 circumligate1599 obligatec1600 gird1602 woold1775 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. to gird together 3. intransitive. To move suddenly or rapidly; to rush, start, spring. Also to gird forth, to gird forward, to gird out, to gird together, to gird up. Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and suddenly windc897 shootc1000 smite?c1225 flatc1300 lash13.. girda1400 shock?a1400 spara1400 spritc1400 whipc1440 skrim1487 glance1489 spang1513 whip1540 squirt1570 flirt1582 fly1590 sprunt1601 flame1633 darta1640 strike1639 jump1720 skite1721 scoot1758 jink1789 arrow1827 twitch1836 skive1854 sprint1899 skyhoot1901 catapult1928 slingshot1969 book1977 a1400–50 Alexander 1243 Ane Beritinus..Come girdand out of Gadirs, out of þe grete cite. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 911 Þe grounde of gomorre [schal] gorde into helle. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 420 With yat come gyrdand in a lyng Crystall off Seytoun. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. xiv. 161 Eneas gyrd abufe hym with a brayd. 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis ii. f. 3v They girded forth, and cutting through the clowds..they ouerflew the Easterne wynde apace. 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 41v The freest horse at the whiske of a wand, gyrdes forwarde. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 428 No sooner hangs he by the hooke, but he runneth and girdeth with it in his mouth too and fro. 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Gird, to push, hurry about. The word is common in the phrase ‘runnin’ an' girdin'.’ < as lemmas |
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