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Also Inflected form of gird

girt

UK/ɡɜːt/ US/ɡɝt/ uncommon uk

verb

1.

encircle or bind

  • “Trees girded the green fields”
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Origin

From Middle English girt, gert, a metathetic variant of gret (“great”). More at great.

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