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GIRD, n. gurd. Eng. a yard.

1. A twitch or pang a sudden spasm, which resembles the stroke of a rod or the pressure of a band.

2. In popular language, a severe stroke of a stick or whip.

GIRD, gurd. pret. and pp. girded or girt.

1. To bind by surrounding with any flexible substance, as with a twig, a cord, bandage or cloth as, to gird the loins with sackcloth.

2. To make fast by binding to put on usually with on as, to gird on a harness to gird on a sword.

3. To invest to surround.

The Son appeared,

Girt with omnipotence.

4. To clothe to dress to habit.

I girded thee about with fine linen. Ezekiel 16 .

5. To furnish to equip.

Girded with snaky wiles.

6. To surround to encircle to inclose to encompass.

The Nyseian isle,

Girt with the river Triton.

7. To gibe to reproach severly to lash.

GIRD, To gibe to sneer to break a scornful jest to utter severe sarcasms.

Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me.

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Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.

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Entry for 'Gird'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/g/gird.html.

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