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girdling |
1 definition found 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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