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GIRD'LE, n.

1. A band or belt; something drawn round the waist of a person, and tied or buckled; as a girdle of fine lines; a leathern girdle.

2. Inclosure; circumference.

3. The zodiac.

4. A round iron plate for baking.

5. Among jewelers,the line which encompasses the stone, parallel to the horizon.

GIRD'LE, v.t. To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.

1. To inclose; to enrivon; to shut in.

2. In America, to make a circular incision, like a belt, through the bark and alburnum of a tree to kill it.
1913 Definition
Girdle (girdle)
n.(?)
Gir"dle
  1. A griddle.
    [Scot. *** Prov. Eng.]
  2. 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.

    Within the girdle of these walls. Shak.

    Their breasts girded with golden girdles. Rev. xv. 6.

  3. The zodiac; also, the equator.
    [Poetic] Bacon.

    From the world's girdle to the frozen pole. Cowper.

    That gems the starry girdle of the year. Campbell.

  4. The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.
    Knight.
  5. A thin bed or stratum of stone.
    Raymond.
  6. The clitellus of an earthworm.

    Girdle bone (Anat.), the sphenethmoid. See under Sphenethmoid. -- Girdle wheel, a spinning wheel. -- Sea girdle (Zoöl.), a ctenophore. See Venus's girdle, under Venus. -- Shoulder, Pectoral, ***and] Pelvic, girdle. (Anat.) See under Pectoral, and Pelvic. -- To have under the girdle, to have bound to one, that is, in subjection.

  7. To bind with a belt or sash] to gird.
    Shak.
  8. To inclose; to environ; to shut in.

    Those sleeping stones,
    That as a waist doth girdle you about.     Shak.

  9. To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.
    [U. S.]
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