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Definition of Girdle

1. Verb. Cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients. "Girdle the plant"

2. Noun. An encircling or ringlike structure.

3. Verb. Put a girdle on or around. "Gird your loins"

4. Noun. A band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers.

5. Noun. A woman's close-fitting foundation garment.

Definition of Girdle

1. n. A griddle.

2. n. That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.

3. v. t. To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.

Definition of Girdle

1. Noun. That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference ¹

2. Noun. A belt; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery. ¹

3. Noun. The zodiac; also, the equator. ¹

4. Noun. The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. ¹

5. Noun. A thin bed or stratum of stone. ¹

6. Noun. The clitellum of an earthworm. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means. ¹

8. Verb. (transitive) To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Girdle

1. to encircle with a belt [v -DLED, -DLING, -DLES]

Medical Definition of Girdle

1. To kill a tree by severing or removing the living layer of the tree (the phloem) in a ring around its trunk. (09 Oct 1997)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Girdle

girasols giraudite gird gird up one's loins girded girder girderless girderlike girders girdest

girdeth girding girdingly girdings girdite girdle (current term) girdle anaesthesia girdle pain girdle sensation girdled

girdler girdlers girdles girdlestead girdlesteads girdling girds girkin girkins

Literary usage of Girdle

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1897)
"The intermediate position of the plexus, the occurrence of symmetrical variation in position of girdle ; of asymmetrically placed girdles and of ..."

2. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable: Giving the Derivation, Source, Or Origin of by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1898)
"He hat a large mouth but mall girdle. Great expenses but small means. The girdle is the purse ... He has undone her girdle. Taken her for his wedded wife. ..."

3. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London by Royal Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"girdle is not homologous throughout the members of the same species, but that two-thirds of the morphological elements of the girdle arc capable of ..."

4. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1901)
"Surirella elegans Ehr. a, inner primary girdle; b, outer primary girdle; a', inner secondary girdle; b', outer secondary girdle; c, arrangement of parts ..."

5. Proceedings of the Cambridge Philosophical Society by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1883)
"4). developed independently, and Bunge states that it fuses with the rest of the girdle on about the eighth day of incubation. I find that all the elements ..."

6. A Glossary; Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1867)
"girdle. Shakespeare has several times used to girdle, for to enclose or embrace. ... Kissing thy girdle-steed with falling pride r Excellent easily : divide ..."

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