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laggen-gird

/lag-uhn-gurd; Scots lag-uhn-gird/US // ˈlæg ənˌgɜrd; Scots ˈlæg ənˌgɪrd //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Scot. and North England.

    • : the bottom hoop securing the staves of a tub or barrel.

Examples

  • They warn authorities to gird themselves for the possibility that many more men could surface.

  • As we gird our national loins for the mid-term elections in November, here is a brisk primer on the movement.

  • Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee.

  • In order to protect yourself from all evils, gird yourself with the rope with which a criminal has been hung.

  • My subordinates may gird their loins to leap and run and gesticulate, shedding their own blood the while in crimson streams.

  • Now gird thee well for courage, My knight of twenty year, Against the marching morrows That fill the world with fear!

  • But the men here think it but fair; gird about their loins and set about working their way through.