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4 lettersPronunciation /ɡɜːd/Part of speech verbSorted dgirStarts with GEnds with D0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. prepare oneself for a military confrontation

Word origin

From Middle English girden, gerden, gürden, from Old English gyrdan (“to put a belt around, to put a girdle around”), from Proto-Germanic *gurdijaną (“to gird”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-. Cognate with West Frisian gurdzje, girdzje, Dutch gorden, German gürten, Swedish gjorda, Icelandic gyrða, Albanian ngërthej (“to tie together by weaving, to bind”).

Used in a sentence

  • The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large.
  • We heere create thee the firſt Duke of Suffolke, / And girt thee with the Sword. Coſin of Yorke
  • Gird thy sword vpon thy thigh, O most mightie: with thy glory and thy maiestie.

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