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The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea | 2006 | Copyright

girt. A ship is girt when it is moored with two anchors out with both cables hauled in so taut that they prevent the ship swinging to wind or tide. The cables as they grow out tautly to the anchors catch the ship's forefoot as it attempts to swing and prevent any such movement. It is a situation easily corrected by veering one of the cables slightly.

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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology | 1996 | | Copyright

girt surround, gird XVI; take the girth of XVII. f. girt sb. (XVI), var. of GIRTH surviving in techn. uses; infl. by pp. girt of GIRD1.

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girt

The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English | 2009 | Copyright

girt¹ / gərt/ • past participle of gird¹. girt² • n. old-fashioned term for girth.

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Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes | 2007 | Copyright

girt •advert, alert, animadvert, assert, avert, Bert, blurt, Burt, cert, chert, concert, controvert, convert, curt, desert, dessert, dirt, divert, exert, flirt, girt, hurt, inert, insert, introvert, Kurt, malapert, overt, pert, pervert, quirt, shirt, skirt, spirt, spurt, squirt, Sturt, subvert, vert, wort, yurt •Engelbert • Colbert • sweatshirt •nightshirt • pay dirt • Frankfurt •miniskirt • underskirt • expert •Blackshirt • redshirt • T-shirt •Brownshirt • undershirt • extrovert •ragwort • milkwort • pillwort •nipplewort • lungwort • bladderwort •liverwort

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