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Definition of Girdled
1. girdle [v] - See also: girdle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Girdled
Literary usage of Girdled
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Tract by Western Reserve Historical Society (1888)
"c ' This road was cut out and the timber girdled according to the recommendation
... It is known in Leroy and Concord in Lake county, as the "girdled Road. ..."
2. Unbeaten Tracks in Japan: An Account of Travels in the Interior Including by Isabella Lucy Bird (1881)
"Mountain-girdled Kiyoto—Third-class Travelling—The Home of Art—The Kiyoto ...
As the Hebrew poets loved to slug of mountain-girdled Jerusalem, ..."
3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN (1901)
"I believe in those days I could have gone into the fire As blithely as the
golden-girdled bee Sucks io the poppy's sleepy flower for the sate of my ..."
4. The Poet at the Breakfast-table: He Talks with His Fellow-boarders and the by Oliver Wendell Holmes (1891)
"May no contractor fill his pockets by undertaking to fill thee, tb.ou granite-
girdled lakelet, or drain the civic purse by drawing off thy waters! ..."
5. The Principles of Fruit-growing, with Applications to Practice by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1915)
"girdled trees. Trees that have been girdled by rabbits, mice or otherwise should
have the injured parts pared down to live tissue and the wounded surface ..."
6. The Century Illustrated Monthly Magazine (1911)
"Being what he was, he could ex- girdled by a belt incrusted with jewels, low,
black shoes, and a black, armhole cloak edged with fur. ..."
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