From un- +‎ gird; or possibly continuing Middle English ungirden, ungurden, from Old English ungyrdan (“to ungird”). Cognate with German entgürten (“to ungird”).

• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)d

ungird (third-person singular simple present ungirds, present participle ungirding, simple past and past participle ungirded)

1. To loosen or remove the girdle or band of.
2. To unbind or unload.

• “ungird”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Durgin, During, during