See Also: girt(medicine)
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stifado (iou) and girt(1) (iou)


stifado (iou)



stifado noun. Pl. -os. M20.
[mod. Greek stiphado prob. from Italian STUFATO.]
A Greek dish of meat stewed with onions and sometimes tomatoes.

girt(1) (iou)



girt noun. Now rare. M16.
[Var. of GIRTH noun1 surviving in techn. uses, infl. by girt pa. pple of GIRD verb1.]
A saddle-girth; = GIRTH noun1 1. obsolete exc. dial. M16.
A girder. Latterly US. L16.
= GIRTH noun1 3. Also (techn.), measurement across or around a surface which is not flat, as a moulded cornice, taking into account all elevations and depressions. M17.
= GIRTH noun1 5. Only in L17.