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Gird :: Gird (n.) A stroke with a rod or switch; a severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.

Web :: Web (n.) The thin vertical plate or portion connecting the upper and lower flanges of an lower flanges of an iron girder, rolled beam, or railroad rail..

Girdlestead :: Girdlestead (n.) That part of the body where the girdle is worn.

Girdled :: Girdled (imp. & p. p.) of Girdl.

Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..

Girdler :: Girdler (n.) A maker of girdles.

Floor :: Floor (n.) The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2..

Sinch :: Sinch (v. t.) To gird with a sinch; to tighten the sinch or girth of (a saddle); as, to sinch up a sadle..

Cuirass :: Cuirass (n.) A piece of defensive armor, covering the body from the neck to the girdle.

Epicoracoid :: Epicoracoid (n.) A ventral cartilaginous or bony element of the coracoid in the shoulder girdle of some vertebrates.

Girdle :: Girdle (v. t.) To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.

Gird :: Gird (v.) To strike; to smite.

Ceint :: Ceint (n.) A girdle.

Bark :: Bark (v. t.) To girdle. See Girdle, v. t., 3..

Girded :: Girded () of Gir.

Ring :: Ring (v. t.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots..

Waist :: Waist (n.) A girdle or belt for the waist.

Zonar :: Zonar (n.) A belt or girdle which the Christians and Jews of the Levant were obliged to wear to distinguish them from Mohammedans.

Camber :: Camber (n.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback..

Deflection :: Deflection (n.) The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from its own weight or by reason of a load.

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