girting

One team joins hands to form a circle and moves rapidly in a clockwise direction, jumping and skipping in order to dodge the dwile (this is called "girting").

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My trade is girting saddles and pulling bridle reins.

Cowboy Songs and Other Frontier Ballads Various

Crush out my Wind with one straight girting Grasp,

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) William Winstanley

If it is that you will die of vexation at being conquered, lay the blame upon me, and say that through my not girting Rozinante well, they overthrew him.

The Children's Hour, v 5. Stories From Seven Old Favorites Eva March Tappan 1892

It was a quaint enough document, inasmuch as the Queen declared in it that she ennobled and invested her son with the Principality and earldom by girting him with a sword, by putting a coronet on his head and a gold ring on his finger, and also by delivering a gold rod into his hand, that he might preside there, and direct and defend these parts.

Life of Her Most Gracious Majesty the Queen — Volume 1 Sarah Tytler 1870

Page 113 girting in the horizon with a narrow strip of vapor, and looking like a long line of low beach.

Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque. In Two Volumes. Vol. I 1840

I watched it attentively until sunset, when it spread all at once to the eastward and westward, girting in the horizon with a narrow strip of vapor, and looking like a long line of low beach.

The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 Edgar Allan Poe 1829

A stick of pine, fifty feet long, girting six feet and three inches at one end, and three feet three inches at the other, costs, delivered here, from fifty-four to sixty livres.

Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 Thomas Jefferson 1784

Crush out my Wind with one straight girting Grasp,

The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets Winstanley, William, 1628?-1698 1687

General Brown cut the greateft part of his count ry - taien t6 piecesfc During this alarm the king put on his cloaths, and girting on his fword as quick as poffible, ran out of the back. door of his houfe, attended by fome of his nobility and life-guards, who were upon duty near him.

Letters from Portugal, Spain, Italy and Germany in the Years 1759, 1760, and ... 1785