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   Girdle , n. A griddle. [Scot. & Prov. Eng.]
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   Girdle, n. [OE. gurdel, girdel, AS. gyrdel, fr. gyrdan; akin to D. gordel, G. gürtel, Icel. gyrill. See Gird, v. t., to encircle, and cf. Girth, n.]
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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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    Within the girdle of these walls.
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   Their breasts girded with golden girdles.
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   The zodiac; also, the equator. [Poetic]
   Bacon.
   
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   From the world's girdle to the frozen pole.
   Cowper.
   
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   That gems the starry girdle of the year.
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   (Jewelry) The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.
   Knight.
   
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   (Mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
   Raymond.
   
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   (Zool.) The clitellus of an earthworm.
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   Girdle bone (Anat.), the sphenethmoid. See under Sphenethmoid. -- Girdle wheel, a spinning wheel. -- Sea girdle (Zool.), 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.
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   Girdle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Girdled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Girdling .]
   To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
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   To inclose; to environ; to shut in.
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   Those sleeping stones,
   That as a waist doth girdle you about.
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   To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it. [U. S.]
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