See gird in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"word": "girdle"
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"word": "gird one's loins"
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"word": "gird up one's loins"
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"text": "The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large.",
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"ref": "1591 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Sixt, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies. […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i], page 120, column 2:",
"text": "We heere create thee the firſt Duke of Suffolke, / And girt thee with the Sword. Coſin of Yorke",
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 45:3:",
"text": "Gird thy sword vpon thy thigh, O most mightie: with thy glory and thy maiestie.",
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"(transitive) To bind with a flexible rope or cord."
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"roman": "zapasvam",
"sense": "to bind with a flexible rope or cord",
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"sense": "to bind with a flexible rope or cord",
"word": "lier ceindre garrotter ligaturer"
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"roman": "mimagreba",
"sense": "to bind with a flexible rope or cord",
"word": "მიმაგრება"
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"word": "ζώννυμι"
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"sense": "to bind with a flexible rope or cord",
"word": "legare allaciare"
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"word": "свя́зывать"
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"word": "связа́ть"
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"word": "atar"
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"sense": "to bind with a flexible rope or cord",
"word": "ligar"
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"word": "binda"
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"text": "The lady girt herself with silver chain, from which she hung a golden shear.",
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Leviticus 8:7:",
"text": "And he put vpon him the coate, and girded him with the girdle, and clothed him with the robe, and put the Ephod vpon him, and he girded him with the curious girdle of the Ephod, and bound it vnto him therewith.",
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{
"ref": "1878, Peter Dodds McCormick (lyrics and music), “Advance Australia Fair”:",
"text": "Australia's sons, let us rejoice, / For we are young and free / We've golden soil and wealth for toil / Our home is girt by sea",
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{
"ref": "1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:",
"text": "It took me back across the dim gulf of ages to some happy home in dead Imperial Kôr, where this winsome lady girt about with beauty had lived and died, and dying taken her last-born with her to the tomb.",
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"To encircle with, or as if with a belt."
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"(transitive) To encircle with, or as if with a belt."
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"english": "(as if) with a belt",
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"word": "vyöttää"
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"word": "შემორტყმა"
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"word": "გარშემოხვევა"
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"sense": "to encircle with, or as if with a belt",
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"code": "mi",
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"sense": "to encircle with, or as if with a belt",
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"word": "подпоя́сывать"
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"word": "ceñir"
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"word": "rodear"
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"word": "encerrar"
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"word": "spänna"
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"word": "omgärda"
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"word": "omgjorda"
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"ref": "1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Isaiah 8:9:",
"text": "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.",
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"ref": "1979 December 15, Stephanie Byrd, “An Injection of Spirit”, in Gay Community News, volume 7, number 21, page 10:",
"text": "The poet is not trying to conform to any of the old standards of behavior. She is instead focusing her rage and girding herself for battle.",
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"ref": "2000 April 15, Tanya Millbank, “The net addict”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "[…] I was intrigued by the notion of ‘virtual beating’, so I entered the words in the Mamma search engine. I girded myself for the sleaziest sites on the net, the kind that advertise the video of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee uncut, […]",
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"ref": "2022 December 9, Andrew Roth, “Putin suggests possibility of settlement to end war in Ukraine”, in The Guardian:",
"text": "The remarks came just days after Putin appeared to be girding Russians for a protracted war in Ukraine, saying that his military operation could be a “long-term process”.",
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"(transitive, chiefly reflexive) To prepare (oneself) for an action."
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"word": "მიმაგრება"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "to encircle with, or as if with a belt"
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"sense": "to encircle with, or as if with a belt",
"word": "შემორტყმა"
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"sense": "to encircle with, or as if with a belt",
"word": "გარშემოხვევა"
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"sense": "to encircle with, or as if with a belt",
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"sense": "to encircle with, or as if with a belt",
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"code": "ru",
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"word": "окаймлять"
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"code": "ru",
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"word": "опоя́сывать"
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"code": "es",
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"word": "ceñir"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "to encircle with, or as if with a belt",
"word": "rodear"
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"code": "es",
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"word": "cercar"
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"code": "es",
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"word": "encerrar"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "to encircle with, or as if with a belt",
"word": "spänna"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "to encircle with, or as if with a belt",
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "to encircle with, or as if with a belt",
"word": "omgjorda"
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"code": "sv",
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"sense": "to encircle with, or as if with a belt",
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"sense": "to encircle with, or as if with a belt",
"word": "підперізувати"
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"code": "de",
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"sense": "to prepare oneself",
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