Ungirth

Quick meaning: Ungirth is a verb meaning To unfasten or remove a girth or belt from.

Meaning

To unfasten or remove a girth or belt from.

Example Sentences

Whenever he entered a house he would ungirth his horse and carry the heavy sacks into the house with him.

Mr Peter, who in the sister isle would, unmistakably, be simple "Pat," helps us to ungirth our mules, which immediately roll and luxuriate in the warm dust, kicking up their heels, and squeezing myriads of flies to death.

Here is Maryland, whose massive columns wheeled into line with those of Virginia in the contest for glory, and whose State-house at Annapolis was the theatre of a spectacle of a successful commander, who, after liberating his country, gladly ungirthed his sword and laid it down upon the altar of that country.

Suffice it that the Lord Abbot had ordered these, our zealous and faithful vassals, instantly to set forth to guard thee from imminent peril–Ye may ungirth your horses, children, and dismiss; and, tomorrow, each who was at this rendezvous may send to the convent kitchen for a quarter of a yard of roastbeef, and a black-jack full of double ale.

Word Forms

• ungirths
• ungirthing
• ungirthed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include ungirdle, ungird, ungear, unbelt, unbuckle, undo.

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