What does "girt" mean?

Girt: imp. & p. p. of Gird.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of; as, to girt a tree. We here create thee the first duke of Suffolk, And girt thee with the sword. Shak.
  2. 3.Bound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.
  3. 4.Same as Girth.

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