gird

Object

• loin: No longer are His loins girt for active service.
• loins: Well batten down the hatches and gird the loins, here's more of the same.
• structure: Gird the structure with three belts made with remaining sticks, and tie the intersections tightly with rags.
• round: Pondicherry Lodge stood in its own grounds, and was girt round with a very high stone wall topped with broken glass.

Modifies a noun

• yourselves: Gird yourselves with sackcloth and haircloth, and wail for your children, and lament for them; for your destruction is at hand.
• square: You can either set, clear or invert the gird squares.

Modifying Another Word

• under: I would want to under gird the whole of our engagement with a theology of hope.
• about: Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth.
• also: Then the hanger and sword, which they also gird on.
• all: The old certainties that under girded all of life fifty years ago have gone.
• then: If you have not tried a red Beaume then gird your loins, grit your teeth and demand supplies from your local wine merchant.

Followed by an intransitive particle

up: Now let me ask you to gird up your attention for the final statement.

Followed by a transitive particle

up: Watch news; gird up loins & go off for run through rain.

Particle object:

• loins: Gird up the loins of your mind, get ready for action!
• loin: Watch news; gird up loins & go off for run through rain.

Preposition: with

• girdle: He is clad in a light-green tunic girt with a brown girdle, which his right hand clasps.
• truth: Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about with truth.
• sword: The members having each been girt with a sword.
• ephod: And David danced before the Lord with all his might, and David was girded with a linen ephod.

Preposition: for

war: And yet this was the German army which forty-eight hours ago was girded for war.