Girdle
['gɜːd(ə)l] or ['gɝdl]
Definition
(noun.) a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers.
(noun.) an encircling or ringlike structure.
(verb.) put a girdle on or around; 'gird your loins'.
(verb.) cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; 'girdle the plant'.
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Definition
(n.) A griddle.
(n.) 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.
(n.) The zodiac; also, the equator.
(n.) The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.
(n.) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
(n.) The clitellus of an earthworm.
(v. t.) To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
(v. t.) To inclose; to environ; to shut in.
(v. t.) To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Band (for the waist), belt, CESTUS, cincture.
v. a. [1]. Gird, bind round.[2]. Environ, encompass, surround, enclose, embrace, girt, shut in.
Typist: Louis
Synonyms and Antonyms
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Definition
n. a Scotch form of griddle.
n. that which encircles esp. a band or belt for the waist: an enclosure compass limit: in jewellery a horizontal line surrounding a stone.—v.t. to bind as with a girdle: to enclose: to make a circular incision as through the bark of a tree to kill it.—n. Gird′le-belt a belt for girding the waist.—p.adj. Gird′led (Shak.) surrounded with or as with a girdle.—n. Gird′ler one who girdles: a maker of girdles.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of wearing a girdle, and it presses you, denotes that you will be influenced by designing people. To see others wearing velvet, or jeweled girdles, foretells that you will strive for wealth more than honor. For a woman to receive one, signifies that honors will be conferred upon her.
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Examples
- Knife-edge girdle diamonds are impractical owing to the liability of chipping the thin edge in setting or by blows while being worn. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Cedric hath another javelin stuck into his girdle, and thou knowest he does not always miss his mark. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- Stranger still, he whirled the girdle twice around his head, then released one end so that the leather strip flew out and the stone shot straight at a bird in the water. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Surely he will not be long now: it is just ten (looking at a little gold watch she drew from her girdle). Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Madame's resolute right hand was occupied with an axe, in place of the usual softer implements, and in her girdle were a pistol and a cruel knife. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- She was fastening into her girdle a hueless and scentless nosegay, when Henry Sympson called to her as he came limping from the house. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- She took up the theme again five minutes after, as Caroline fastened her dress and clasped her girdle. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- All wore strange protruding girdles of dried grass about their hips and many were loaded with brass and copper anklets, armlets and bracelets. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- Moreover, Cr?sus dedicated the ornaments from his wife's neck and her girdles. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- They stand clothed in white, girdled with golden girdles; they uplift vials, brimming with the wrath of God. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- So they fastened belt-claws to their stout girdles and tugged the bow strings into place with their back and leg muscles. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Poseidon, has thou then girdled Hymettus with the azure scarf of ocean? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- He seemed to be girdled with an iron ring. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They stand clothed in white, girdled with golden girdles; they uplift vials, brimming with the wrath of God. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- But, he was girdled still with Bradley's iron ring, and the rivets of the iron ring held tight. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- There were no flowers, no garden-beds; only a broad gravel-walk girdling a grass-plat, and this set in the heavy frame of the forest. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
Typist: Ollie