Usually means: Secure or encircle with a band.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. gird: Merriam-Webster
  2. gird, gird: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gird, gird: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. gird: Collins English Dictionary
  5. gird: Vocabulary.com
  6. Gird, gird: Wordnik
  7. gird: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. gird: Wiktionary
  9. gird: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. gird: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. gird: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Gird, gird: Dictionary.com
  13. gird: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. GIRD, Gird (geometry), Gird: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Gird: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. gird: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. gird: Rhymezone
  18. Gird: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. gird: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. Gird: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  21. gird: FreeDictionary.org
  22. gird: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. gird: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. gird: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. gird: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gird: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. GIRD: Acronym Finder
  2. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  3. gird: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. gird: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See girded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive) To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
verb:  (transitive) To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly reflexive) To prepare (oneself) for an action.
verb:  (nautical, intransitive) (of a vessel towing another) To be pulled on sideways by its towline, putting it at risk of capsizing.
noun:  A sarcastic remark.
noun:  A stroke with a rod or switch.
noun:  A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
verb:  (transitive) To jeer at.
verb:  (intransitive) To jeer.

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