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The circumference of an animal, measured under the belly and over the back; the part of the animal over which the girth fits..
Linear body measurements taken on 137 ewes showed that heart girth and abdominal girthline are significantly (P < 0.01) related to ewe weight, hence size.
Pay close attention to the areas that the saddle will touch — withers, back, girthline, and belly.
"The Ginger Mountain" we called her. Or "The Ginger Monster" if whe was being a nuisance... not that she was vicious, she wouldn't hurt a fly, but she was insatiably nosy, had to see everything you were doing and would never stand still... Chestnut, she was, and eighteen hands if she was an inch, off the scale on the girthline measuring tape, with great big ears,and a white blaze with ginger freckles on it.
Next Carole examined Dime's back, where the saddle rested, and his girthline, where the girth fastened around his middle.
Buff body coated with white outside ; hard; 4.05 diam.; ornamented with vertical panels of burnished lattice lines, two burnished girthlines on the bulge, and one terminating the panels of lattice lines.
Breslau let out another hole in its belt recently, extending its municipal girthline to include a number of suburbs.
Then the lining (right side out over the sleeve) was temporarily basted to the sleeve at the girthline and above the Wrist.
"Yet lastly, of firstly, Meeeeee......... - whichever way outstretched, it makes no difference- We all are one!" concluded one of them, somewhere- too hard to tell which one of the spheroids- for all seven resonated remarkably as but one whirling equatorial girthline of an undivided supercircumference.
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Girthline means The circumference of an animal, measured under the belly and over the back; the part of the animal over which the girth fits..
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Linear body measurements taken on 137 ewes showed that heart girth and abdominal girthline are significantly (P < 0.01) related to ewe weight, hence size.
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