Definition of girdle
- n. - A griddle.
- n. - 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.
- n. - The zodiac; also, the equator.
- n. - The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut
diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of
Brilliant.
- n. - A thin bed or stratum of stone.
- n. - The clitellus of an earthworm.
- v. t. - To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
- v. t. - To inclose; to environ; to shut in.
- v. t. - To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.)
through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.