girded, ppl. a.
(ˈgɜːdɪd)
[f. gird v.1 + -ed1.]
In senses of the vb.
| Beowulf (Z.) 2078 He fyrmest læᵹ, gyrded cempa. 1599 Shakes. Hen. V, iii. Prol. 27 Behold the Ordenance on their Carriages, With fatall mouthes gaping on girded Harflew. 1627 May Lucan i. 649 But by the guirded Sacrificers strength..orecome..holds forth his conquer'd necke. 1877 Bryant Poems, Little People of Snow 62 With trailing garments through the air they came, Or walked the ground with girded loins. 1882 J. Robertson tr. Müller's Heb. Synt. §97 Six hundred girded men. 1889 Sat. Rev. 16 Mar. 319/2 The young lord with his hakama (silk trousers) and girded sword. |