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girth

/ɡɝθ/ noun C2
  1. A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place. (countable, uncountable)
  2. The part of an animal around which the girth fits. (countable, uncountable)
  3. One's waistline circumference, most often a large one. (countable, informal, uncountable)
  4. A small horizontal brace or girder. (countable, uncountable)
  5. The distance measured around an object; the circumference. (countable, uncountable)
  6. The length of the shortest cycle in a graph. (countable, uncountable)

Plural girths

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‘It has a girth of twenty-three feet.’
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, p. 17 · B2

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