Usually means: Secures or encircles with a band.
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  1. girds: Merriam-Webster
  2. girds: Collins English Dictionary
  3. girds: Vocabulary.com
  4. Girds, girds: Wordnik
  5. girds: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. girds: Wiktionary
  7. girds: Dictionary.com
  8. girds: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. girds: Legal dictionary

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  1. girds: Idioms

(Note: See gird as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (gird)

verb:  (transitive) To bind with a flexible rope or cord.
verb:  (transitive) To encircle with, or as if with a belt.
verb:  (transitive, chiefly reflexive) To prepare (oneself) for an action.
verb:  (nautical, intransitive) (of a vessel towing another) To be pulled on sideways by its towline, putting it at risk of capsizing.
noun:  A sarcastic remark.
noun:  A stroke with a rod or switch.
noun:  A severe spasm; a twinge; a pang.
verb:  (transitive) To jeer at.
verb:  (intransitive) To jeer.
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