girt
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And at the center is Finland, a country of just 5.4 million people, girt by the sea and lashed by the wind.
From The New Yorker ● May 12, 2015
Chemistry feels that it owes much to Pittsburgh's Mellon Institute of Industrial Research which will soon move into a huge, classic building girt by tall pillars.
From Time Magazine Archive
Thus girt with logic, Leon Henderson still had no price weapon last week.
From Time Magazine Archive
To prevent injury or death in case of such a mishap the 20-lb. rotor is girt by an 800-lb. steel shell, 5 in. thick.
From Time Magazine Archive
Frodo gave way; and Gandalf, as if he were their esquire, knelt and girt the sword-belts about them, and then rising he set circlets of silver upon their heads.
From "The Return of the King" by J.R.R. Tolkien
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