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Gird :: Gird (n.) A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.

Girdle :: Girdle (n.) That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus..

Belt :: Belt (n.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds..

Girdle :: Girdle (v. t.) To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it..

Zodiac :: Zodiac (n.) A girdle; a belt.

Twister :: Twister (n.) A girder.

Girding :: Girding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Gir.

Girdle :: Girdle (n.) The zodiac; also, the equator..

Girdlestead :: Girdlestead (n.) That part of the body where the girdle is worn.

Ungird :: Ungird (v. t.) To loose the girdle or band of; to unbind; to unload.

Tail-bay :: Tail-bay (n.) One of the joists which rest one end on the wall and the other on a girder; also, the space between a wall and the nearest girder of a floor. Cf. Case-bay..

Girder :: Girder (n.) One who, or that which, girds..

Gain :: Gain (n.) A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam..

Girdlestead :: Girdlestead (n.) The lap.

Top :: Top (n.) The part of a cut gem between the girdle, or circumference, and the table, or flat upper surface..

Engirded :: Engirded (imp. & p. p.) of Engir.

Web :: Web (n.) The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail..

Succinct :: Succinct (a.) Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.

Zonule :: Zonule (n.) A little zone, or girdle..

Girder :: Girder (n.) A main beam; a stright, horizontal beam to span an opening or carry weight, such as ends of floor beams, etc.; hence, a framed or built-up member discharging the same office, technically called a compound girder. See Illusts. of Frame, and Doubleframed floor, under Double..

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