Translations for „gird“ in the English » German Dictionary

gird <girded [or girt], girded [or girt]> [gɜ:d, Am gɜ:rd] VB trans old

to gird oneself for sth

sich acc für etw acc rüsten form

we girded ourselves for the fray hum

wir rüsteten uns zum Kampf

Phrases:

to gird [up] one's loins hum

sich acc wappnen form

Examples from the PONS Dictionary (editorially verified)

to gird [up] one's loins hum

sich acc wappnen form

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

Wrangling is its abhorrence; no man there girds himself against his fellow.

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They are girded by an iron balustrade with bronze railing.

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He was the first to order the scholars to gird themselves with a belt to distinguish themselves from other people.

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Blessed ancestors have sometimes received sisiutl's help when he transforms himself into an invincible war canoe, and sometimes into a magic belt with which to gird oneself against all dangers.

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For seminarians, deacons, and priests the cassock is exactly the same as their normal cassock: a black cassock with black buttons, girded with a black fascia.

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Gird up your loins; fresh courage take.

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Buttresses enabled the building to stand without any steel girding.

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The piglet has chased the young (16) of those who are girded and the eye....

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A black cassock with amaranth piping and buttons, girded with a purple fascia, serves as pian dress (academic dress) for an honorary prelate or protonotary apostolic.

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The exterior walls of the kiln are girded with horizontal and vertical iron bands to allow for the proper structural expansion and contraction of the kiln during firing and cooling.

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