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Case-bay :: Case-bay (n.) One of the joists framed between a pair of girders in naked flooring.

Girdle :: Girdle (n.) A griddle.

Guard :: Guard (n.) To fasten by binding; to gird.

Cest :: Cest (n.) A woman's girdle; a cestus.

Sea Girdles :: Sea girdles () A kind of kelp (Laminaria digitata) with palmately cleft fronds; -- called also sea wand, seaware, and tangle..

Ephod :: Ephod (n.) A part of the sacerdotal habit among Jews, being a covering for the back and breast, held together on the shoulders by two clasps or brooches of onyx stones set in gold, and fastened by a girdle of the same stuff as the ephod. The ephod for the priests was of plain linen; that for the high priest was richly embroidered in colors. The breastplate of the high priest was worn upon the ephod in front..

Seint :: Seint (n.) A girdle.

Zone :: Zone (n.) A girdle; a cincture.

Girdler :: Girdler (n.) One who girdles.

Mortise :: Mortise (v. t.) To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder..

Gird :: Gird (v. t.) To clothe; to swathe; to invest.

Girdler :: Girdler (n.) An American longicorn beetle (Oncideres cingulatus) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvae..

Cuirass :: Cuirass (n.) A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle.

Precoracoid :: Precoracoid (n.) The anterior part of the coracoid (often closely united with the clavicle) in the shoulder girdle of many reptiles and amphibians.

Surcingled :: Surcingle (n.) The girdle of a cassock, by which it is fastened round the waist..

Begird :: Begird (v. t.) To surround as with a band; to encompass.

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..

Gird :: Gird (v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest..

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

Orthostade :: Orthostade (n.) A chiton, or loose, ungirded tunic, falling in straight folds..

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