TO GIRD UP

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TO GIRD UP

Definition: TO GIRD UP

TO GIRD UP

1. To bind tightly with a girdle; to support and strengthen, as with a girdle. He girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab. --1 Kings xviii. 46. Gird up the loins of your mind. --1 Pet. i. 13.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Crosswords: TO GIRD UP

Etymologies containing "TO GIRD UP": Procinct ♦ succinct. (references)

Modern Translation: TO GIRD UP

Language		Translations for "TO GIRD UP"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Hungarian		nekikészül (to gird up one's loins), nekigyürkőzik (to brace oneself, to get cracking, to gird up one's loins, to go at it baldheaded, to knuckle down to sg, to knuckle to sg, to roll up one's sleeves, to turn up one's sleeves), nagy erőfeszítésre készül (to gird up one's loins), hozzákészülődik (to gird up one's loins), összeszedi magát (collect oneself, nerve oneself, pull oneself together, to brace oneself up, to collect oneself, to gather oneself together, to get well, to gird up one's loins, to nerve oneself, to play the man, to pull up one's socks, to recover oneself, to recuperate, to rouse oneself, to steel one's heart). (various references)

Pig Latin		otay irdgay upay
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Anagrams: TO GIRD UP

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "d-g-i-o-p-r-t-u"
	-2 letters: pigout, putrid, torpid, tripod, turgid, upgird, upgirt.
	-3 letters: dript, droit, dropt, gourd, griot, gript, group, grout, guiro, pirog, proud, trigo.
	-4 letters: dipt, dirt, doit, dorp, dour, drip, drop, drug, duit, duro, gird, giro, girt, gorp, gout, grid, grip, grit, grot, guid, port, pour, pout, prig, prod, prog, puri, riot, roti, roup, rout, tiro.
	Words containing the letters "d-g-i-o-p-r-t-u"
	+2 letters: protruding.
	+3 letters: outdropping.
	+4 letters: multipronged, outproducing, outspreading.
	+5 letters: photoreducing.
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Alternative Orthography: TO GIRD UP

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F 47 49 52 44 55 50

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01000111 01001001 01010010 01000100 00100000 01010101 01010000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#71 &#73 &#82 &#68 &#32 &#85 &#80

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F 0047 0049 0052 0044 0055 0050

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544924143523825550

INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Translations: Modern
4. Anagrams

5. Orthography
6. Bibliography

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