noun the zodiac; also, the equator.
2. girdle ·noun a thin bed or stratum of stone.
3. girdle ·noun a griddle.
4. girdle ·noun the clitellus of an earthworm.
5. girdle ·vt to bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
6. girdle ·vt to inclose; to environ; to shut in.
7. girdle ·vt to make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, ·etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.
8. girdle ·noun the line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. ·see ·illust. of brilliant.
9. girdle ·noun 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.