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Meanings of gird in English

Portuguese
prover de armas
Catalan
armar-se
Spanish
armar

Prepare oneself for a military confrontation.

      prover de armas
      Portuguese
      cingir
      Spanish
      ceñir

      Put a girdle on or around.

            cingir
            Catalan
            envoltar
            Spanish
            cercar

            Bind with something round or circular.

                  envoltar

                  Girth.

                        Usage of gird in English
                        1
                        Both armies paused now to gird their loins for the crucial test.
                        The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln
                        2
                        We see the goal, and gird our loins anew for the race.
                        A Dish of Orts : Chiefly Papers on the Imagination, and on Shake...
                        3
                        But the gird offers interesting pointers to what's up and what's down.
                        The Irish Times
                        4
                        Then didst thou speak to him and gird at him, swineherd Eumaeus:
                        The Odyssey of Homer
                        5
                        Be thou more calm of spirit, and gird thyself for greater endurance.
                        The Imitation of Christ
                        6
                        How Socrates looked, when he was fain to gird himself with a
                        Meditations
                        7
                        I'll have to gird up my loins with a rope before long.
                        The Desired Woman
                        8
                        You, Fra Domenico, cut off your sacerdotals, and gird high your habit.
                        Love-at-Arms / Being a Narrative Excerpted from the Chronicles o...
                        9
                        Are we soldiers that we should be made to gird on swords?
                        The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories
                        10
                        Wednesday's report, in other words, means the shareholder bar had better gird itself.
                        Reuters
                        11
                        The armies paused next day to gird their loins for the crucial test.
                        The Man in Gray: A Romance of North and South
                        12
                        The resulting bubbles spray through a gird of tiny holes onto the paper.
                        Reuters
                        13
                        Never did three more ignorant girls gird themselves for the fray.
                        The Palace Beautiful: A Story for Girls
                        14
                        He would rest, and then gird up his loins and face life again.
                        The Golden House
                        15
                        Let now thy troops gird themselves up, let them bind on their weapons.
                        The Babylonian Legends of the Creation
                        16
                        After that we will gird our loins, and set forth early on Saturday.'
                        Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor
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                        Gird through the time
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