girdle
/ˈɡɝdl̩/ noun C2- That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference. · the girdle of the world
- A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
- A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
- The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
- A thin bed or stratum of stone.
- The clitellum of an earthworm.
- The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
Plural girdles
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He saw a congested flood of wagons, trucks, cabs, vans and street cars filling the vast space where Broadway, Sixth Avenue and Thirty-fourth street cross one another as a twenty-six inch maiden fills her twenty-two inch girdle.
At this challenge, Vampa rose quickly, drawing at the same moment a pistol from his girdle.
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