gird : Idioms & Phrases

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Girt up

  • ; prepared or equipped, as for a journey or for work, in allusion to the ancient custom of gathering the long flowing garments into the girdle and tightening it before any exertion; hence, adjectively, eagerly or constantly active; strenuous; striving. "A severer, more girt-up way of living." J. C. Shairp.
Webster 1913

Millstone girt

  • (Geol.), a hard and coarse, gritty sandstone, dividing the Carboniferous from the Subcarboniferous strata. See Farewell rock, under Farewell, a., and Chart of Geology.
Webster 1913

To gird on

  • to put on; to fasten around or to one securely, like a girdle; as, to gird on armor or a sword.
    Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. 1 Kings xx. 11.
Webster 1913

To gird up

  • to bind tightly with a girdle; to support and strengthen, as with a girdle.
    He girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab. 1 Kings xviii. 46.
    Gird up the loins of your mind. 1 Pet. i. 13.
Webster 1913