girdle
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/ˈgəːd(ə)l/
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Universal
1a belt or cord worn round the waist: her waist was defined by a gold chain girdle a thing that encircles something like a girdle:a communications girdle around the world
2a woman’s elasticated corset extending from waist to thigh: she wears corsets and girdles, tight and uncomfortable
3the part of a cut gem dividing the crown from the base and embraced by the setting.
4a ring made around a tree by removing bark.
1encircle (the body) with a girdle:the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist surround; encircle:the chain of volcanoes which girdles the Pacific
2cut through the bark all the way round (a tree or branch), typically in order to kill it: sometimes the trees were completely girdled and died