Definition of "girding" []

• Present participle of gird. (verb)

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• "But the problem is less in the numbers than in the Corps's general approach - that is, the idea of girding for a "Katrina-like event.""
• "– I do require a general structure to work with, one that is flexible but also provides some kind of girding to hold up the characters and ideas and themes and moods I’m working with."
• ""girding" them "with strength unto the battle," and in giving them a"