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- English Word Girdle Definition To inclose; to environ; to shut in.
- English Word Girdle Definition To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.
- English Word Girdled Definition of Girdle
- English Word Girdler Definition One who girdles.
- English Word Girdler Definition A maker of girdles.
- English Word Girdler Definition An American longicorn beetle (Oncideres cingulatus) which lays its eggs in the twigs of the hickory, and then girdles each branch by gnawing a groove around it, thus killing it to provide suitable food for the larvae.
- English Word Girdlestead Definition That part of the body where the girdle is worn.
- English Word Girdlestead Definition The lap.
- English Word Girdling Definition of Girdle
- English Word Gire Definition See Gyre.
- English Word Girkin Definition See Gherkin.
- English Word Girl Definition A young person of either sex; a child.
- English Word Girl Definition A female child, from birth to the age of puberty; a young maiden.
- English Word Girl Definition A female servant; a maidservant.
- English Word Girl Definition A roebuck two years old.
- English Word Girlhood Definition State or time of being a girl.
- English Word Girlish Definition Like, or characteristic of, a girl; of or pertaining to girlhood; innocent; artless; immature; weak; as, girlish ways; girlish grief.
- English Word Girlond Definition A garland; a prize.
- English Word Girn Definition To grin.
- English Word Girondist Definition A member of the moderate republican party formed in the French legislative assembly in 1791. The Girondists were so called because their leaders were deputies from the department of La Gironde.
- English Word Girondist Definition Of or pertaining to the Girondists.
- English Word Girrock Definition A garfish.
- English Word Girt Definition of Gird
- English Word Girt Definition imp. & p. p. of Gird.
- English Word Girt Definition To gird; to encircle; to invest by means of a girdle; to measure the girth of; as, to girt a tree.
- English Word Girt Definition Bound by a cable; -- used of a vessel so moored by two anchors that she swings against one of the cables by force of the current or tide.
- English Word Girt Definition Same as Girth.
- English Word Girted Definition of Girt
- English Word Girth Definition A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.
- English Word Girth Definition The measure round the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything.