Crossword-Solution: GIRD
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Gird | n. | A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang. |
| Gird | n. | A cut; a sarcastic remark; a gibe; a sneer. |
| Gird | v. | To strike; to smite. |
| Gird | v. | To sneer at; to mock; to gibe. |
| Gird | v. i. | To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms. |
| Gird | v. t. | To encircle or bind with any flexible band. |
| Gird | v. t. | To make fast, as clothing, by binding with a cord, girdle, bandage, etc. |
| Gird | v. t. | To surround; to encircle, or encompass. |
| Gird | v. t. | To clothe; to swathe; to invest. |
| Gird | v. t. | To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| GIRD | anagram | GRID |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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greedy person
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Sentences with GIRD (5)
Arme, Warriours, Arme for fight, the foe at hand, Whom fled we thought, will save us long pursuit This day, fear not his flight; so thick a Cloud He comes, and settl’d in his face I see Sad resolution and secure: let each His Adamantine coat gird well, and each Fit well his Helme, gripe fast his orbed Shield, Born eevn or high, for this day will pour down, If I conjecture aught, no drizling showr, But ratling storm of Arrows barbd with fire.
They have never received any encouragement from me and they never will.” [These extracts have been inserted since the Lecture was read —HDT] They who know of no purer sources of truth, who have traced up its stream no higher, stand, and wisely stand, by the Bible and the Constitution, and drink at it there with reverence and humanity; but they who behold where it comes trickling into this lake or that pool, gird up their loins once more, and continue their pilgrimage toward its fountain-head.
Nathless Yet shall there lurk within of ancient wrong Some traces, bidding tempt the deep with ships, Gird towns with walls, with furrows cleave the earth.
Yet must I gird me to rehearse ere long The fiery fights of Caesar, speed his name Through ages, countless as to Caesar's self From the first birth-dawn of Tithonus old.
First on the way to Jimville you cross a lonely open land, with a hint in the sky of things going on under the horizon, a palpitant, white, hot land where the wheels gird at the sand and the midday heaven shuts it in breathlessly like a tent.
Quotes with GIRD (3)
... they say [Finn] has tasted the Nuts of Wisdom." Elatha laughed. "Perhaps the Nuts of Wisdom will gird him against your sister.
His will be done, as done it surely will be, whether we humble ourselves to resignation or not. The impulse of creation forwards it; the strength of powers, seen and unseen, has its fulfillment in charge. Proof of a life to come must be given. In fire and in blood, if needful, must that proof be written. In fire and in blood do we trace the record throughout nature. In fire and in blood does it cross our own experience. Sufferer, faint not through terror of this burning evide…
The best that any education can do is to add understanding of the past and present, to gird one for the future, to sharpen the intelligence, to enable one to evaluate whatever comes along, to listen, to learn, to question, to be interested in what is going on, to be involved, to believe “this concerns me,” above all to keep the mind alive. This is what I believe Scott Fitzgerald did for me in his College of One.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NY Sun, NYT, Onion, S&S, The Atlantic, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 176 times in crossword archives (1960–2025).