Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To encircle.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To surround; encircle; encompass.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To gird; to encompass.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb to
ingirt
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Examples
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The steersman,5 the boatswain, the lieutenant,6 the look-out-man at the prow, the shipright — these are the people who engird the city with power far rather than her heavy infantry7 and men of birth of quality.
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The five on the left, engird all the sides, from the left flank outward: and therefore in arranging the companies, the pikemen ought to be placed so that they turn by that flank which in uncovered.
The Art of War 2003
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The steersman, (5) the boatswain, the lieutenant, (6) the look-out-man at the prow, the shipright -- these are the people who engird the city with power far rather than her heavy infantry (7) and men of birth of quality.
Polity Athenians and Lacedaemonians 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon 1874
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From the roots of the rocks underlying the gulfs that engird it around
Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III Algernon Charles Swinburne 1873
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Shalt see the horsemen engird Baghdad * Like clouds that wall the whole world below,
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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"Does not the chace," he would say, "now afford us equal pleasure? are not my dogs as swift, and these mountains as replete with game as those which engird my paternal residence."
The Loyalists, Vol. 1-3 An Historical Novel Jane West 1805
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