gird

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ɡɜːd/    美 /ɡɝd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A sarcastic remark.
    — I thank thee for that gird, good Tranio.
  2. A stroke with a rod or switch.
  3. A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
    — Conscience […] is freed from many fearful girds and twinges which the atheist feels.
动词 v.
  1. To bind with a flexible rope or cord. transitive
    — The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large.
  2. To jeer at. transitive
    — Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods.
  3. To encircle with, or as if with a belt. transitive
    — a castle girded with a moat
  4. To jeer. intransitive
    — Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me.
  5. To prepare (oneself) for an action. reflexive,transitive
    — Associate your selues, O ye people, and yee shalbe broken in pieces; and giue eare all ye of farre countreys: gird your selues, and ye shalbe broken in pieces; gird your selues, and ye shalbe broken in pieces.
  6. (of a vessel towing another) To be pulled on sideways by its towline, putting it at risk of capsizing. intransitive
    — On 19 July 2009, the tug North Arm Venture was towing the barge North Arm Express, loaded with fuel and deck cargo, from Toba Inlet to Sechelt Inlet. The tug girded and capsized at approximately 1250 Pacific Daylight Time while making a turn to port at the entrance to Sechelt Rapids .... Girding is defined as a situation where a vessel experiences athwartship forces from its towline. This situation can lead to a capsizing or foundering.

词形变化

girds present,singular,third-person girding participle,present girded participle,past girded past girt participle,past girt past girds plural girds present,singular,third-person girding participle,present girded participle,past girded past

词汇关系

衍生词
begird engird overgird undergird ungird upgird
相关词
girder girdle gird one's loins gird up one's loins girt through-gird

词源

词源 1
From Middle English girden, gerden, gürden, from Old English gyrdan (“to put a belt around, to put a girdle around”), from Proto-Germanic *gurdijaną (“to gird”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-. Cognate with West Frisian gurdzje, girdzje, Dutch gorden, German gürten, Swedish gjorda, Icelandic gyrða, Albanian ngërthej (“to tie together by weaving, to bind”).
词源 2
From Middle English girden (“to strike”), from Old English *gyrdan.
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