Difference between Girdle and Gird

What is the difference between Girdle and Gird?

Girdle as a verb is to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means. while Gird as a verb is to bind with a flexible rope or cord.

Girdle

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means. To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference A belt; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery. The zodiac; also, the equator. The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. A thin bed or stratum of stone. The clitellum of an earthworm.

Example sentence: Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

Gird

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A sarcastic remark.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To bind with a flexible rope or cord.To encircle with, or as if with a belt.To jeer at.To jeer.

We hope you now know whether to use Girdle or Gird in your sentence.

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