- to encircle or bind with a belt or band.
- to surround; enclose; hem in.
- to prepare (oneself) for action: He girded himself for the trial ahead.
- to provide, equip, or invest, as with power or strength.
- to gibe; jeer (usually followed by at).
- to gibe or jeer at; taunt.
- a gibe.
- to put a belt, girdle, etc, around (the waist or hips)
- to bind or secure with or as if with a belt
- to surround; encircle
- to prepare (oneself) for action (esp in the phrase gird (up) one's loins)
- to endow with a rank, attribute, etc, esp knighthood
- to jeer (at someone); mock
- to strike (a blow at someone)
- to move at high speed
- a blow or stroke
- a taunt; gibe
- a display of bad temper or anger (esp in the phrases in a gird; throw a gird)
- a hoop, esp a child's hoop
