[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

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.
      1913 webster

   2. to inclose; to environ; to shut in.
      1913 webster

            those sleeping stones,
            that as a waist doth girdle you about. --shak.
      1913 webster

   3. to make a cut or gnaw a groove around a tree, etc.
      through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it. u. s.
      1913 webster
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