girdle

noun · verbA2

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noun

Plural noun:

girdles

1.
That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference.
the girdle of the world
2.
A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
3.
A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
4.
The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
5.
(mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
6.
The clitellum of an earthworm.
7.
The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
8.
(Northern English, Scotland, alt of, alternative)Alternative form of griddle.

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verb

V_es/s

girdles

V_ing/Gerund

girdling

V_ed/pp

girdled

1.
(transitive)To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
2.
(transitive)To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.

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ine-pro From Middle English girdel, gerdel, gurdel, from Old English gyrdel, from *gurdil, from Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz (girdle, belt), equivalent to gird + -le. 2 cog Cognate with Gäddel, gurdle, gurle, gurl (belt), gordel, Gürtel, (whence gartel, a doublet of girdle), gördel, gyrðill.