From en.wiktionary.org:
** English
[Girdle (disambiguation)]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
- [en]
*** Etymology 1
[en] From [en], [enm], [enm], from [en], from [en], from [en], equivalent to
[en]. [2] Cognate with [stq], [fy], [fy], [fy], [nl], [de], [yi] (whence
[en], a doublet of girdle), [sv], [is]. [col-bottom]
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. That which gird s, encircle s, or enclose s; a circumference .
2. * [act=I]
3. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1782 | author=w:William Cowper | title=Expostulation
|passage=from the world's GIRDLE to the frozen pole}}
1. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1799 | author= [Thomas Campbell (poet)] | title=Pleasures of Hope
|passage=In yonder pensile orb, and every sphere<br>that gems the starry
GIRDLE of the year}}
1. A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery .
2. * [book=Revelation]
3. * {{ Q | en | [Aeschylus] | [The Persians] | 155 | quote=O Queen, most exalted of Persia's deep- GIRDLED women, venerable mother of Xerxes, wife of Darius, all hail! | refn= [1] }} < !--βαθύζωνος = with ornate, draping sash-->
4. * [page=109]
5. * [1=en]
6. A garment used to hold the abdomen , hip s, buttock s, and/or thigh s in a particular shape.
7. The line of greatest circumference of a 吴语: Diamond cut diamond , at which it is grasped by the setting . [2]
8. [en] A thin bed or stratum of stone . [3]
9. The clitellum of an earthworm .
10. The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree .
***** Derived terms
{{col|en|athlete's girdle |begirdle |engirdle |girdlelike |Girdle Ness |girdle
scone |girdlestead |girdle traverse |mirdle |notch girdle |panty girdle|limb
girdle syndrome |pectoral girdle |peel girdle |pelvic girdle |shoulder girdle
|Venus's girdle }}
***** Translations
[circumference]
- Bulgarian: [bg]
- Finnish: [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Galician: [gl]
- Georgian: [ka]
- Greek: [el]
[trans-bottom]
[belt]
- Armenian:
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Danish: [da] , [da]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] ; [fi] [belt to support hosiery]
- French: [fr]
- Georgian: [ka]
- German: [de]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Italian: [it] , [it] , [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Kurdish:
- Latin: [la] , [la] , [la] , [la] , [la]
- Maori: [mi] , [mi] , [mi] , [mi]
- Navajo: [nv]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
- Persian: [fa]
- Plautdietsch: [pdt]
- Portuguese: [pt] , [pt]
- Romagnol: [rgn] , [rgn]
- Romanian: [ro]
- Russian: [ru] , [ru]
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn]
- Spanish: [es]
- Swedish: [sv]
- Turkish: [tr]
[trans-bottom]
[zodiac]
[line of greatest circumference of a diamond]
- Dutch: [nl]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi]
- French: [fr]
- Italian: [it]
- Sicilian: [scn] , [scn]
[trans-bottom]
[thin bed or stratum of stone] [trans-bottom]
[clitellum of an earthworm]
[checktrans-top]
- Hebrew: [he] ( _Biblical_ )
- Woiwurrung: [wyi]
[trans-bottom]
**** Verb
[en-verb]
1. [en] To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
2. * [en]
3. [en] To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark .
4. * [en]
***** Derived terms
{{col3|en |girdler |ungirdle }}
***** Translations
[to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means]
- Bulgarian: [bg] , [bg]
- Czech: [cs] , [cs] , [cs]
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- Georgian: [ka] , [ka]
- Greek: [el] , [el]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Ottoman Turkish: [ota]
[trans-bottom]
[to kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark]
- Finnish: [fi]
[trans-bottom]
*** Etymology 2
**** Noun
[en-noun]
1. [en] [en] .
*** References
References:
[1]. [author= [Aeschylus]]
[2]. [R:Knight AMD]
[3]. [R:Raymond Glossary]
*** Anagrams
- [en]
[en]