Meaning of GIRDLE in English

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Meaning of GIRDLE in English

• A griddle.
• 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.
• The zodiac; also, the equator.
• The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.
• A thin bed or stratum of stone.
• The clitellus of an earthworm.
• To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
• To inclose; to environ; to shut in.
• To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.

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