The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
GIRDLES
Noun
girdles
plural of girdle
Verb
girdles
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of girdle
Anagrams
• Gilders, gilders, gliders, gridles, grisled, regilds, ridgels
Source: Wiktionary
GIRDLE
Gir"dle, n.
Definition: A griddle. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
Gir"dle, n. Etym: [OE. gurdel, girdel, AS. gyrdel, fr. gyrdan; akin to D. gordel, G. gürtel, Icel. gyr. 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)
Definition: The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant. Knight.
4. (Mining)
Definition: A thin bed or stratum of stone. Raymond.
5. (Zoöl.)
Definition: 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, and 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.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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