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I'd be grateful if anyone on this list could tell me the meaning of
the English dialectical word "girt". It seems to be a Somerset word:
I've encountered it in Somerset dialect folk tales recorded by Briggs
and Tongue
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Yes. Barnes uses it in his Dorset dialect poems. Mark and Robin are right.
It means 'great' as Barnes' own wordlist at the end of PoRL confirms.
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