girt

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To gird.
• intransitive verb To secure with a girth.
• intransitive verb To measure the girth of.
• intransitive verb To measure in girth.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun Preterit and past participle of gird.
• noun Same as girth.
• noun An obsolete preterit and past participle of gird.
• noun A beam; a small girder; a crosspiece in a frame.
• To measure or have a girth of: as, the tree girts eight feet.
• To measure by a girding-line.
• Same as gird.
• Nautical, having her cables so taut, as a vessel when moored, as to prevent her from swinging to the wind or tide.
• In entomology, same as braced, 2.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• imp. & p. p. of gird.
• noun Same as girth.
• transitive verb To gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of.
• adjective (Naut.) 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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.
• verb To gird.
• verb To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.
• verb To measure the girth of.
• verb Simple past tense and past participle of gird.