GIRDLE


Meaning of GIRDLE in English

I . n.

Band ( for the waist ), belt, cincture, cestus.

II . v. a.

1.

Gird, bind round.

2.

Environ, encompass, surround, enclose, embrace, girt, shut in.

3.

[ U. S. ] Cut round, incise about, cut a girth round the bark of.

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