What is to strike; to smite. [Obs.] To slay him and to girden off his head. Chaucer called?
gird — To strike; to smite. [Obs.] To slay him and to girden off his head. Chaucer. (Webster's 1913.)
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- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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