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girt(medicine)
girt(dictionary)
girt(2)(dictionary)
girt(1)(dictionary)
One North(tourism)
Cox North(health)
North Down(encyclopedia)
Air North(tourism)
North Sea(encyclopedia)

North York (sh) and girt(1) (iou)


North York (sh)




City (pop., 2001: 608,288), southeastern Ontario, Canada.

With the cities of Etobicoke, Scarborough, Toronto, and York and the borough of East York, it forms the municipality of Metropolitan Toronto. North York became a borough in 1967 and a city in 1979. Planned industrial and residential development protects more than 4,000 acres (1,620 hectares) of parks and open space. York University and the Black Creek Pioneer Village are among its attractions.


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.