We have often stored one hundred and fifty tons of hay in this barn; and it will hold even more, if thoroughly packed, and the movable girts over the main floor be used, as described in Design I.
The stables are 7 feet high, from the lower floor to the girts overhead, which connect them with the main line of barn posts; thus giving a loft of 4 feet in height at the eaves, and of 12 feet at the junction with the barn.
The opposite side, and overhead, is devoted to the smoke-house, in which the various girts and hooks may be placed, for sustaining the meats to be smoked.
A and A' are the shears connected at intervals by cross girts or webs B to stiffen them.
The travelling bed is composed of slats S connected together by the chain shown, and resting upon slides A, A, supported by the girts B, B.
By employing a gib instead of a weight, the bed may be provided with cross girts or ribs joining the two sides of the shear, thus giving much greater stiffness to it.
The girts are located at vertical intervals of not to exceed 5 feet, so as to afford good nailing for vertical siding.
An ordinary frame with posts and girts about three feet apart had been erected, on sills and with plates carrying the roof.
Standing vertically against the girts and tied to them, forming a close layer, were the kaoliang stems.
A similar layer of stems, set up on the inside of the girts and similarly plastered, formed the inner face of the wall of the house, leaving dead air spaces between the girts.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "girts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
