Girder vs. Girt

Girdernoun

A beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as a main horizontal support in a building or structure.

Girdernoun

One who girds; a satirist.

Girdernoun

One who girds; a satirist.

Girdernoun

One who, or that which, girds.

Girdernoun

A main beam; a stright, horizontal beam to span an opening or carry weight, such as ends of floor beams, etc.; hence, a framed or built-up member discharging the same office, technically called a compound girder. See Illusts. of Frame, and Doubleframed floor, under Double.

Girdernoun

a beam made usually of steel; a main support in a structure

Girdernoun

a large iron or steel beam or compound structure used for building bridges and the framework of large buildings

Girder

A girder is a support beam used in construction. It is the main horizontal support of a structure which supports smaller beams.

Girtnoun

A horizontal structural member of post and beam architecture, typically attached to bridge two or more vertical members such as corner posts.

Girtverb

To gird.

Girtverb

To bind horizontally, as with a belt or girdle.

Girtverb

To measure the girth of.

Girtverb

simple past tense and past participle of gird

Girtverb

(nautical) to capsize because of forces in the cable attaching it to another vessel.

Girtadjective

(nautical) Bound by a cable; used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.

Girtadjective

in the sense 'great'.

Girt

imp. & p. p. of Gird.

Girtverb

To gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of; as, to girt a tree.

Girtadjective

Bound by a cable; - used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.

Girtnoun

Same as Girth.

Girtverb

encircle or bind;

Girt

For the town in Armenia, see Kard, Armenia. In architecture or structural engineering, a girt, also known as a sheeting rail, is a horizontal structural member in a framed wall.