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語源 1

Alteration of girth (“belt, circumference, brace”).

名詞

girt (plural girts)

1. A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.
   • 2013, Rob Roy, “Basic Timber Frame Structure”, in Timber Framing for the Rest of Us: A Guide to Contemporary Post and Beam Construction, Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, →ISBN:

     There are various ways of tying rafters to sidewalls, and the choices may vary depending on roof pitch. One of the most common is the use of “birdsmouths” cut into the rafter. A notch is cut into the rafter so that the rafter bears down flat upon the doubled top plate of stick framing, or upon the girt in heavy timber framing.

関連する語

• girder

語源 2

From 中期英語 girten (“gird, encircle”).

動詞

girt (third-person singular simple present girts, present participle girting, simple past and past participle girted)

1. To gird.
2. To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.
3. To measure the girth of.

派生語

語源 3

動詞

girt

1. simple past and past participle of gird
   • 1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “The Author Gives Some Account of Himself and Family, His First Inducements to Travel. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume I, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part I (A Voyage to Lilliput), page 20:

     Eighty Poles, each of one Foot high, were erected for this purpoſe, and very ſtrong Cords of the bigneſs of Packthread were faſtned by Hooks to many Bandages, which the Workmen had girt round my Neck, my Hands, my Body, and my Legs.

形容詞

girt (not comparable)

1. (nautical) 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.

動詞

girt (third-person singular simple present girts, present participle girting, simple past and past participle girted)

1. (nautical) to capsize because of forces in the cable attaching it to another vessel.

語源 4

From 中期英語 girt, gert, a metathetic variant of gret (“great”). More at great.

形容詞

girt (not comparable)

1. (UK, rural dialect) Alternative spelling of gurt in the sense 'great'.

アナグラム

• Grit, grit, trig