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. gĆ¼rtel, 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. (Zoƶl.)
Definition: The clitellus of an earthworm. Girdle bone (Anat.), the
sphenethmoid. See under Sphenethmoid.
– Girdle wheel, a spinning wheel.
– Sea girdle (Zoƶl.), 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