Frankenberg was soon girt by a mighty town wall.
A characteristic attribute of the castle are its tall cylindrical donjon tower girt round with a white plaster streak about halfway up and the ruined chapel adjoining it.
The boys, on the other hand, have little bells hung round them, or some similar device of silver or gold, attached to the little belt with which they are girt.
Daniel 10: 5-6 describes an angel as clothed in linen and girt with gold.
Houses generally faced the south, and plaza areas were almost always girt with edifices of sealed-off rooms or high walls.
If the girt is notched into the post (with or without pegs), then it was more probably a secondary addition.
In architecture or structural engineering, a girt is a horizontal structural member in a framed wall.
In traditional timber framing a girder is called a girt.
