Girdle

Quick meaning: Girdle is a noun meaning That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
2. A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
3. The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
4. (mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
5. The clitellum of an earthworm.
6. The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
7. (transitive) To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.

Example Sentences

the girdle of the world

from the world's girdle to the frozen pole

Suppose within the girdle of these walls Are now confin'd two mighty monarchies

In yonder pensile orb, and every sphere that gems the starry girdle of the year

Word Forms

• girdles
• girdling
• girdled

Synonyms for girdle

Depending on context, synonyms include cincture, sash, gird, waistband, deaden, waistcloth.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gird, cincture, stays, sash, waistband, waistcloth.

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