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▪ I. gurt dial.|gɜːt|
[? a. AF. gort: see gorce. The word occurs in Fr. dialects (Beauce) with the sense of trench, conduit (see Godef. s.v. gort).]
A trench or gutter, esp. in Mining.
1633T. Stafford Pac. Hib. iii. vi. (1810) 549 By reason of a Gurt or Cleft Rock, made by the Sea. 1671Phil. Trans. VI. 2098 A heat, Gurt, or Trench. 1778Pryce Min. Cornub. 322 Gurt, a fret or channel made by great rain or floods in a highway; also a channel to carry off water from one place to another for dressing of Copper Ore, Tin or the like. 1842–71G. P. R. Pulman Rustic Sk. 100 The dykes or drains in Colyford Marsh are called ‘gurts’—synonymous with ‘rhines’ in the Somersetshire Levels.
▪ II. gurt
dial. form of great. |