单词 | gird up |
释义 | > as lemmasto gird up a. transitive. To surround, encircle (the waist, a person about the waist) with a belt or girdle, esp. for the purpose of confining the garments and allowing freer action to the body. Chiefly reflexive or passive; also, after Biblical phrase, to gird one's loins, to gird one's reins, etc. Also to gird up, to gird about. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > belt or girdle girdc950 begirdc1000 belta1400 girdle1582 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > surround or lie around [verb (transitive)] > surround with begirdc890 belayc893 bitrumc1000 umbegoc1300 vironc1440 compass1481 beset1578 entour1623 to fabricate about with1634 surround1635 hearse1646 gird1667 round1698 entwine1796 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John xxi. 18 Mið-ðy [þu] uere giungra ðu waldes ðec gigyrde..miððy uutudlice ðu bist geuintrad..oðer ðec gyrdeð. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 307 Ge Schulen inan hetter & igurd liggen. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 3149 Sod and girt, stondende, and staf on hond. c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 1804 Coryneus first vp he stirt, & wyþ a cloþ his body gyrt. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Tobit v. 5 Tobie..fond a ȝung man stondende, ful faire, gird [1535 Coverdale gyrded vp], and as redi to gon. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xii. 11 Ȝe schulen girde about ȝoure reynes. c1430 Syr Gener. (Roxb.) 7054 The lauendres kirtel on she cast, She gird hir, and tukked hir fast. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 432 b/2 For gyrdle he gyrded hym on his bare flesshe wyth a corde. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 2 Kings iv. 29 Girde vp thy loynes, and take my staffe in thy hande, and go thy waye. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Luke xii. 35 Let youre loynes be gerded aboute. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1113 Those Leaves They gatherd..And..together sowd, To gird thir waste. View more context for this quotation 1782 W. Cowper Truth in Poems 82 In shirt of hair, and weeds of canvas dressed, Girt with a bell-rope that the Pope has blessed. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake iii. 106 He girt his loins, and came. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend II. iii. iv. 25 She girded herself with a white apron. 1872 Earl of Pembroke & G. H. Kingsley South Sea Bubbles vii. 176 They girded him with strange belts. to gird up b. To secure (clothing, armour, etc.) on the person by means of a girdle; also to gird on, to gird up. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > fasten lace?c1225 gird1297 belta1400 buttona1425 garterc1440 lashc1440 pointa1470 trussa1475 lace1485 fasten1600 truss1610 bind1720 staylace1832 sandal1897 zip1929 to zip up1937 zipper1938 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 8962 Þo caste þis gode mold hire mantel of anon & gurde aboute hire middel a uair linne ssete. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 316 Ȝif þise cloþis ben gurde & more large in widnesse, þei beren on hem more synne. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) John xxi. 7 Simon Peter..gyrde his mantell aboute him & sprange in to ye see. 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. O8v An olde gowne girded to him with a thong. 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Kings xx. 32 So they girded sackcloth on their loynes. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 542 Let each His Adamantine coat gird well. View more context for this quotation 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xi. 17 Bade the Greeks Gird on their armour. 1815 W. Scott Lord of Isles v. xxxiv. 218 Warn Lanark's knights to gird their mail. 1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 45 He rode with his finely shaped head and breast naked, his blanket being girt round his waist. 1855 C. Kingsley Heroes (1868) ii. 24 So Perseus arose, and girded on the sandals and the sword. 1877 J. Northcote Catacombs i. v. 71 With his tunic girt high about his loins. to gird up ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > binding or tying > bind or tie [verb (transitive)] > bind > bind round or about uptrussc1340 betiea1556 circumlige1572 circumligate1599 obligatec1600 gird1602 woold1775 1602 J. Marston Antonios Reuenge ii. v. sig. E2v Then I Catch straight the cords end; and..offer a rude hand, As readie to girde in thy pipe of breath. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xii. sig. B3v Sommers greene all girded vp in sheaues. View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) Ecclus. xxii. 16 As timber girt and bound together in a building [etc.] . View more context for this quotation 1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados Index to Plate 84 Two stantions of timber, which are girded together in severall places, with wood or iron. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 82 How [they will] gird the Sphear With Centric and Eccentric scribl'd o're. View more context for this quotation 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 128 For I take the seed..to be a cluster of bubbles wryed up snug, or a bottome of hoops or springs closely girt or knit together. to gird up 3. intransitive. To move suddenly or rapidly; to rush, start, spring. Also to gird forth, to gird forward, to gird out, to gird together, to gird up. Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swift movement in specific manner > move swiftly in specific manner [verb (intransitive)] > move swiftly and suddenly windc897 shootc1000 smite?c1225 flatc1300 lash13.. girda1400 shock?a1400 spara1400 spritc1400 whipc1440 skrim1487 glance1489 spang1513 whip1540 squirt1570 flirt1582 fly1590 sprunt1601 flame1633 darta1640 strike1639 jump1720 skite1721 scoot1758 jink1789 arrow1827 twitch1836 skive1854 sprint1899 skyhoot1901 catapult1928 slingshot1969 book1977 a1400–50 Alexander 1243 Ane Beritinus..Come girdand out of Gadirs, out of þe grete cite. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness l. 911 Þe grounde of gomorre [schal] gorde into helle. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) ii. 420 With yat come gyrdand in a lyng Crystall off Seytoun. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. xiv. 161 Eneas gyrd abufe hym with a brayd. 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis ii. f. 3v They girded forth, and cutting through the clowds..they ouerflew the Easterne wynde apace. 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 41v The freest horse at the whiske of a wand, gyrdes forwarde. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 428 No sooner hangs he by the hooke, but he runneth and girdeth with it in his mouth too and fro. 1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire Gird, to push, hurry about. The word is common in the phrase ‘runnin’ an' girdin'.’ < as lemmas |
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