to tie something around your body or part of your body: The knights girded them selves for battle (= put on their swords and fighting clothes).

'Gird' in a sentence: Anyone who lives for the thrill of a great markdown, gird your loins.

Verb (1) for the celebration of the heroes' return, well-wishers girded hundreds of trees with yellow ribbons she girded her waist with a delicate sash the Spartan warrior girded himself for battle with sword and shield a tall hedge girds the exclusive estate and shields it from prying eyes Noun in her farewell speech, the departing governor got in some retaliatory girds at the media

Sentences It was not, indeed, the first knightly Order to gird itself for the task. 34 15 Then the hanger and sword, which they also gird on. 9 3 In Holland the expiration of the Twelve Years' Truce in 1621 forced the Dutch Protestants once more to gird on the sword.