Definition of Girle
Gir"dle (?), n. A griddle.
[Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
Gir"dle, n. [OE. gurdel,
girdel, AS. gyrdel, fr. gyrdan; akin to D.
gordel, G. gürtel, 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 world's 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. (Zoöl.) The clitellus of an
earthworm.
Girdle bone (Anat.), the
sphenethmoid. See under Sphenethmoid. -- Girdle
wheel, a spinning wheel. -- Sea
girdle (Zoöl.), a ctenophore. See
Venus's girdle, under Venus. --
Shoulder, Pectoral, ∧
Pelvic, girdle. (Anat.)
See under Pectoral, and Pelvic. -- To
have under the girdle, to have bound to one, that is,
in subjection.
Gir"dle, v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Girdled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Girdling (?).] 1. To bind with a belt or
sash; 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.]
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
- A belt; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
- The zodiac; also, the equator.
- The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
- A thin bed or stratum of stone.
- The clitellus of an earthworm.
- A griddle.
- (transitive) To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
- (transitive) To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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