verb

• (transitive) To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
  "The fasces were girt about with twine in bundles large."
• (transitive) To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
  "The lady girt herself with silver chain, from which she hung a golden shear."
• (transitive, chiefly reflexive) To prepare (oneself) for an action.
  "Associate your selues, O ye people, and yee shalbe broken in pieces; and giue eare all ye of farre countreys: gird your selues, and ye shalbe broken in pieces; gird your selues, and ye shalbe broken in pieces."
• (nautical, intransitive) (of a vessel towing another) To be pulled on sideways by its towline, putting it at risk of capsizing.
  "On 19 July 2009, the tug North Arm Venture was towing the barge North Arm Express, loaded with fuel and deck cargo, from Toba Inlet to Sechelt Inlet. The tug girded and capsized at approximately 1250 Pacific Daylight Time while making a turn to port at the entrance to Sechelt Rapids .... Girding is defined as a situation where a vessel experiences athwartship forces from its towline. This situation can lead to a capsizing or foundering."

verb

• (transitive) To jeer at.
  "Being moved, he will not spare to gird the gods."
• (intransitive) To jeer.
  "Men of all sorts take a pride to gird at me."