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Updated June 2026
A hoop or band; also a dialectal variant of 'gird'.
“The cooper fitted a new girr around the barrel to hold it together.”
"Girr" repeats a letter (3 unique of 4), so it rules out fewer options as an opening guess. Its 1 vowel balance the consonants.
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