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girt

verb as in encompass

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Nevertheless, he was girt with a sword in a ragged scabbard hanging from a frayed and shabby belt of leather.

He wore a gray hermit's cloak, and beneath that a rude, dirty cassock, girt With a cord.

Rapallo itself, as you find on your first morning, is beautiful, chiefly by reason of its sea-girt tower.

When the campaign of 1793 opened she was girt in along her whole frontier by a ring of foes.

In Darley church-yard, near Matlock in Derbyshire, is a yew tree, thirty-three feet in girt.

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On this page you'll find 19 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to girt, such as: belt, beset, circle, compass, encircle, and enclose.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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