girt
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And at the center is Finland, a country of just 5.4 million people, girt by the sea and lashed by the wind.
From The New Yorker ● May 12, 2015
To prevent injury or death in case of such a mishap the 20-lb. rotor is girt by an 800-lb. steel shell, 5 in. thick.
From Time Magazine Archive
Within two years, he declared, the British Empire will have scrapped her historic free trade policy, girt herself with a tariff wall against U. S. and even European competition.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus girt with logic, Leon Henderson still had no price weapon last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
Slender and tall she was in her white robe girt with silver; but strong she seemed and stern as steel, a daughter of kings.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
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