Use those metal bands to gird the sign onto the telephone pole. From LearnThat.org.
gird your loins. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
So "gird" -- put on one the bonds of a prisoner instead of the ordinary girdle (Joh 21: 18). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
110: "This coat of mail, this sword gird on," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral] Reference
You made a few good observations, however, I don't quite know what a "gird" system is!. From Wordnik.com. [xian's running monolog] Reference
"This coat of mail, this sword gird on," he said. From Wordnik.com. [Poems on various subjects, religious and moral] Reference
Rise! gird thyself; -- go forth where sorrow weepeth. From Wordnik.com. [Poems of the Heart and Home] Reference
He must take heart and gird himself for the struggle. From Wordnik.com. ["Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character] Reference
Young England to gird up his loins and fall to his work. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845] Reference
Committed reformers just have to gird up for another fight. From Wordnik.com. [Why Welfare Isn't Vietnam] Reference
He might now confidently gird himself for finishing the work. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Abraham Lincoln] Reference
As GM directors gird for battle, the stakes are extraordinary. From Wordnik.com. [ONE MORE PINK SLIP?] Reference
Then David said to his young men: Let every man gird on his sword. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 09: 1 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
Tear your clothes, and gird you with sackcloth, and mourn before Abner. From Wordnik.com. [The World English Bible (WEB): 2 Samuel] Reference
Love's crimson current gird them close! white-winged Peace wind through!. From Wordnik.com. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy] Reference
I'm also hearing that someone is going to die tonight, so gird your loins, people!. From Wordnik.com. [True Blood Episode Recap: "Evil Is Going On"] Reference
Thou therefore gird up thy loins, and arise, and speak to them all that I command thee. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
It is good to pull our loose thinkings together and to "gird up the loins of the mind.". From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
Now they gird on their swords, saddle and girth their steeds, mount and take their shields. From Wordnik.com. [Cligés. English] Reference
The light of a coming triumph that shall gird and glorify his whole life illumines his eyes. From Wordnik.com. [April's Lady A Novel] Reference
After Pearl Harbor, Americans girded for war and self-privation; now they gird for Christmas. From Wordnik.com. [The New Face Of America] Reference
She had tried to gird herself for it, but was nothing could have prepared her for this, really. From Wordnik.com. [Let the shitbirds fly] Reference
Rend your garments, and gird yourselves with sackcloths, and mourn before the funeral of Abner. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 10: 2 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
STANHOPE a peculiarly painful circumstance; all very well for good Conservative to gird against. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, March 25, 1893] Reference
Breyer says he helps Wal-Mart to look ahead -- and perhaps gird for some unanticipated competition. From Wordnik.com. [Big Bucks, Big Thinker] Reference
Cry, ye daughters of Rabbath, gird yourselves with haircloth: mourn and go about by the hedges: for. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Thou shalt bring his sons also, and shalt put on them the linen tunics, and gird them with a girdle. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
The market's fear index has eased lately, but that could mean it is a good time to gird for rockier trading. From Wordnik.com. [Sum of All Fears Adds Up to VIX Hedge] Reference
Be astonished, ye rich women, be troubled, ye confident ones: strip you, and be confounded, gird your loins. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 27: Isaias The Challoner Revision] Reference
Amen, amen, I say to thee, When thou wast younger, thou didst gird thyself and didst walk where thou wouldst. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 50: John The Challoner Revision] Reference
Amen I say to you that he will gird himself and make them sit down to meat and passing will minister unto them. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision] Reference
For this gird yourselves with haircloth, lament and howl: for the fierce anger of the Lord is not turned away from us. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 28: Jeremias The Challoner Revision] Reference
And thou shalt gird the tunic with fine linen, and thou shalt make a fine linen mitre, and a girdle of embroidered work. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 02: Exodus The Challoner Revision] Reference
Michelangelo's David will gird his loins, Rodin's Thinker will look up in wonder, because you are a Pygmalion; a Hermione. From Wordnik.com. [Keeping a Picture] Reference
Perhaps to gird against the loss of former supporters like Bernard, Republicans have been looking beyond black churchgoers in 2006. From Wordnik.com. [Wooing Back the Flock] Reference
But when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee and lead thee whither thou wouldst not. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 50: John The Challoner Revision] Reference
The ruling Democrats were determined not to leave empty-handed as both parties gird for potentially game-changing midterm elections. From Wordnik.com. [In The End, Few Bills Break Through Senate Gridlock] Reference
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