girt

girt englanniksi

1. A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.

2. (quote-book)

3. To gird.

4. To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.

5. To measure the girth of.

6. (infl of)

7. (RQ:Swift Gulliver)

8. 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.

9. to capsize because of forces in the cable attaching it to another vessel.

10. (alternative spelling of) '' in the sense 'great.