What's the difference between gire and girt?

Gire


Definition:

  • (n.) See Gyre.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The saddest thing is to think that this government has been defeated on this issue and decided that the only solution is ask women to look after themselves,” said Regina Tames, director of the Information Group on Reproductive Choice (GIRE).
  • (2) For some, there’s a real wish to bring it down to 14.” When I ask who she means, she says Mermaids and the Gender Identity Research and Education Society (Gires) , a transgender advocacy charity based in the UK.

Girt


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Gird
  • () imp. & p. p. of Gird.
  • (v.) To gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of; as, to girt a tree.
  • (a.) 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.
  • (n.) Same as Girth.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) At least it trumps its predecessor thanks to the inclusion of the word ‘girt’, which undercuts all the guff about “golden soil” and being “young and free” by virtue of sounding like an Irishman saying ‘girth’.
  • (2) Some favourite nature words: aftermath the first growth of grass in a field after it has been cut (English, regional) coire high, scooped hollow on a mountainside, usually cliff-girt (Gaelic) didder of a patch of bog or marsh; to quiver as a walker approaches it (East Anglia) eawl-leet dusk, lit.

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