Girdle
girdle (?), n. A griddle.(Scot. & Prov. Eng.)
girdle , n. (OE. gurdel,girdel, AS. gyrdel, fr. gyrdan; akin to D.
gordel, G. gurtel, Icel. gyr?ill. See
Gird, v. t., to encircle, and cf.
Girth, n.)
1. 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.
2. The zodiac; also, the equator.
(Poetic) Bacon.
From the worlds girdle to the frozen
pole. Cowper.
That gems the starry girdle of the
year. Campbell.
3. (Jewelry) The line ofgreatest
circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by
the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.
Knight.
4. (Mining) A thin bed or stratum of
stone. Raymond.
5. (Zool.) The clitellus of an
earthworm.
Girdle bone (Anat.), the
sphenethmoid. See under Sphenethmoid. -- Girdle
wheel, a spinning wheel. -- Sea
girdle (Zool.), a ctenophore. See
Venuss girdle, under Venus. --
Shoulder, Pectoral, a
Pelvic, girdle. (Anat.)
See under Pectoral, and Pelvic. -- To
have under the girdle, to have bound to one, that is,
in subjection.
girdle , v. t. (imp. p. pr. to gird. Shak.
2. To inclose; to environ; to shut
in.
Those sleeping stones,
That as a waist doth girdle you about.
Shak.
3. 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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