Hypertext Webster Gateway: "girdled"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Girdle \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.]
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