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GIRD'LE, n.

1. A band or belt something drawn round the waist of a person, and tied or buckled as a girdle of fine lines a leathern girdle.
2. Inclosure circumference.
3. The zodiac.
4. A round iron plate for baking.
5. Among jewelers,the line which encompasses the stone, parallel to the horizon.

GIRD'LE, To bind with a belt or sash to gird.

1. To inclose to enrivon to shut in.
2. In America, to make a circular incision, like a belt, through the bark and alburnum of a tree to kill it.
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Entry for 'Girdle'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​g/girdle.html.
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