GIRDLE
\ɡˈɜːdə͡l], \ɡˈɜːdəl], \ɡ_ˈɜː_d_əl]\
Definitions of GIRDLE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1920 - A dictionary of scientific terms.
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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a woman's close-fitting foundation garment
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an encircling or ringlike structure
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put a girdle on or around; "gird your loins"
By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A griddle.
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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.
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The zodiac; also, the equator.
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The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.
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A thin bed or stratum of stone.
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The clitellus of an earthworm.
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To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
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To inclose; to environ; to shut in.
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To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.
By Oddity Software
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A griddle.
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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.
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The zodiac; also, the equator.
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The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.
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A thin bed or stratum of stone.
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The clitellus of an earthworm.
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To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
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To inclose; to environ; to shut in.
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To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.
By Noah Webster.
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A belt for the waist; anything that surrounds like a belt.
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To bind with, or as with, a belt; inclose; to kill or injure, as a tree, by making a cut in the bark around the trunk.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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That which girds or encircles, esp. a band for the waist: an inclosure: (jew.) a horizontal line surrounding a stone.
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To bind, as with a girdle: to inclose: to make a circular incision, as through the bark of a tree to kill it.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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In appendicular skeleton, the supporting structure at shoulder and hip, each consisting typically of one dorsal and two ventral elements.
By Henderson, I. F.; Henderson, W. D.
