engirt

From en- +‎ girt.

engirt (third-person singular simple present engirts, present participle engirting, simple past and past participle engirted)

1. (obsolete) To girt; to surround or encircle.

Inflected forms.

engirt

1. past participle of engird

engirt (comparative more engirt, superlative most engirt)

1. (rare) Encircled, surrounded.
   • 1992, Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety, Harper Perennial, published 2007, page 64:

     They noted too his cavalier way with the facts of a case, and his ability to twist the most mundane judicial dictum into the pronouncement of some engirt tyrant, whose fortress he and he alone must storm.

• Ginter, Tengri, Tigner, erting, tinger