"girded" is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use it to mean "prepared or equipped with something (mental, physical, or spiritual strength)" or "clothed or surrounded with something." For example: "We must gird ourselves with courage before entering the haunted mansion."
The American president talked mostly of universal values and security as he girded the transatlantic alliance to confront a newly aggressive Russia.
In outward appearance Caracas is the most "Americanised" of Latin American capitals, its freeways clogged with big Fords and Chevrolets and girded by billboards for Coca-Cola.
Singapore, or the "wired island", as it likes to call itself, has girded itself in high-speed networks and set up a $1 billion fund for "technopreneurs".
The Indian banking sector is currently girded with all sorts of restrictions on bank ownership and mergers.
Months of bleak talk from ministers has girded voters for the pain to come.
"All I know is we lost everything and we're trying to get gas so we can get up out of here," said Mr Reese.When Gustav formed in the Caribbean late last month, much of the Gulf coast girded for disaster.
THE Syrian regime likes to keep up the appearance of a constitutional state rather than one run by a family cabal girded by a ruthless security apparatus.
Girded for battle, they loaded into a truck and piled out next to a group of people on the bridge.
Today, the metropolitan area of Brussels, girded by a beltway (the so-called grande ceinture), extends beyond the footprint of the 19 communes to encompass a fringe of the province of Flemish Brabant.
Following several Indian strikes against western Kansas and northern Texas, the army again girded for war in 1868, with Maj.
On the shore by the Ponte Rotto is the site of the earliest cattle market (Forum Boarium) and vegetable market (Forum Holitorium), girded with temples, of which two remain: an elegant circular marble structure of the 1st century bce and a nicely proportioned rectangular Ionic building, perhaps a few decades older.
