Crossword clues for girdle
girdle
- Slimming device
- Elasticized garment
- Figure enhancer
- Fat container?
- Waist reduction aid
- An encircling or ringlike structure
- A band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers
- A woman's close-fitting foundation garment
- Encircle
- Young woman covering daughter with English garment
- Resolving feud after negotiation, one's on hand
- Bird's beginning to fly wearing new leg ring
- Foundation garment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Girdle \Gir"dle\, n. [OE. gurdel, girdel, AS. gyrdel, fr. gyrdan; akin to D. gordel, G. g["u]rtel, Icel. gyr?ill. See Gird, v. t., to encircle, and cf. Girth, n.]
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That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.
Within the girdle of these walls.
--Shak.Their breasts girded with golden girdles.
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The zodiac; also, the equator. [Poetic]
--Bacon.From the world's girdle to the frozen pole.
--Cowper.That gems the starry girdle of the year.
--Campbell. (Jewelry) The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.
--Knight.(Mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
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(Zo["o]l.) The clitellus of an earthworm.
Girdle bone (Anat.), the sphenethmoid. See under Sphenethmoid.
Girdle wheel, a spinning wheel.
Sea girdle (Zo["o]l.), a ctenophore. See Venus's girdle, under Venus.
Shoulder, Pectoral, & Pelvic, girdle. (Anat.) See under Pectoral, and Pelvic.
To have under the girdle, to have bound to one, that is, in subjection.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English gyrdel "belt, sash, cord about the waist," common Germanic. (cognates: Old Norse gyrðill, Swedish gördel, Old Frisian gerdel, Dutch gordel, Old High German gurtil, German Gürtel "belt"), related to Old English gyrdan "to gird" (see gird). Modern euphemistic sense of "elastic corset" first recorded 1925. The verb meaning "encircle with a girdle" is attested from 1580s. Meaning "to cut off a belt of bark around a trunk to kill a tree" is from 1660s. Related: Girdled; girdling.\n
Wiktionary
n. 1 That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference 2 A belt or elasticated corset; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery. 3 The zodiac; also, the equator. 4 The line of greatest circumference of a http://en.wikipedi
org/wiki/Diamond%20cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. 5 (context mining English) A thin bed or stratum of stone. 6 The clitellum of an earthworm. 7 (context Scottish Northern English English) (alternative form of griddle English) v
1 (context transitive English) To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means. 2 (context transitive English) To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
WordNet
n. an encircling or ringlike structure
a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers [syn: cincture, sash, waistband, waistcloth]
a woman's close-fitting foundation garment [syn: corset, stays]
v. cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients; "girdle the plant" [syn: deaden]
put a girdle on or around; "gird your loins" [syn: gird]
Wikipedia
The term girdle, meaning "belt", commonly refers to the liturgical attire that normally closes a cassock in many Christian denominations, including the Anglican Communion, Methodist Church and Lutheran Church. The girdle, in the 8th or 9th century, was said to resemble an ancient Levitical Jewish vestment, and in that era, was not visible. In 800 AD, the girdle began to be worn by Christian deacons in the Eastern Church.
The girdle, for men, symbolizes preparation and readiness to serve, and for women, represents chastity and protection; it was also worn by laypersons in the Middle Ages, as attested in literature. For example, the hagiographical account of Saint George and the Dragon mentions the evildoer being tamed with the sign of the cross and a girdle handed to Saint George by a virgin.
Since the 20th century, the word "girdle" also has been used to define an undergarment made of elasticized fabric that was worn by women. It is a form-fitting foundation garment that encircles the lower torso, perhaps extending below the hips, and worn often to shape or for support. It may be worn for aesthetic or medical reasons. In sports or medical treatment, a girdle may be worn as a compression garment. This form of women's foundation wear replaced the corset in popularity, and was in turn to a large extent surpassed by the pantyhose in the 1960s.
A girdle is a garment that encircles the midsection.
Girdle may also refer to:
- Girdle (chiton), part of the anatomy of the marine mollusks known as chitons
- The Girdle, a mountain range in California
- Girdle of Thomas, a belt dropped by the Virgin Mary to the Apostle Thomas
- Cincture, a liturgical vestment
- Girdle book, small medieval European books able to be hung from the belt
- Girdle pain, pain that encircles the body like a belt
- Girdle Toll, a small village on the outskirts of Irvine, North Ayrshire
- Pelvic girdle, an anatomical term
- Pectoral girdle, an anatomical term
- Girdle (gemstone), element of round gemstone cuts
A girdle is part of the anatomy of a chiton, one class of marine mollusks, the class Polyplacophora. The shell of a chiton consists of eight shelly plates which articulate with one another. The girdle is a strong but flexible structure that in most cases encircles the plates, holding them all together.
Details of the external surface of the girdle are often useful in identifying the taxonomic family, genus and species of chiton. For example, the girdle may be covered in overlapping scales, spikes, or it may have tufts of glassy bristles protruding from it.
In a few genera of chitons, the girdle covers the valves either partially, as in the Black Katy chiton, or completely, as with the gumboot chiton.
Usage examples of "girdle".
Framed in it was the amethystine burning of the great ring that girdled the encircling cliffs.
While Abbot Henry silently fetched a brace of candlesticks from the nearest aumbry and invested them with fresh beeswax candles, Arnault and Ninian moved to the rear of the chapel, where Ninian proceeded to lay out several small items from a deerskin pouch at his girdle.
The sheaf grows under her fingers, it is bound about with a girdle of twisted stalks, in which mingle the green bine of convolvulus and the pink-streaked bells that must fade.
And, turning to the red ashes burning in a brazier near at hand, I dexterously substituted a fragment of paper, on which I had been figuring my accounts, for the paper received, from the dhobi, placing the former on the glowing charcoal embers and bestowing the latter in the security of my girdle.
In his left hand he held a short spear, the blade of which seemed to be fashioned of chipped flint, or some other hard and shining stone, and in the girdle of his kilt was thrust a wooden-handled instrument or ax, made by setting a great, sharp-edged stone that must have weighed two pounds or so into the cleft end of the handle which was lashed with sinews both above and below the axhead.
It was a sheer-walled ravine that extended in either direction as far as they could see, apparently girdling the mountain, some four hundred yards in width and five hundred feet deep.
The kimono, haori, and girdle, and even the long hanging sleeves, have only parallel seams, and these are only tacked or basted, as the garments, when washed, are taken to pieces, and each piece, after being very slightly stiffened, is stretched upon a board to dry.
Since his return from England he had resumed the dress of his race in his country-- the long dark gabardine or kaftan, with a scarf for girdle, the black slippers, and the black skull-cap.
Giggling merrily, Keak ran his gaze from the enchanted hammer to the magic girdle the dwarf wore around his thick middle.
The Killadar, who was dressed for battle in a clean white robe girdled by a red cummerbund and hung with a jewelled scabbard, looked horrified.
The Killadar, who was dressed for battle in a clean white robe girdled by a red cummerbund and hung with a jeweled scabbard, looked horrified.
They swirled about Kutch and the stranger, then as quickly vanished, replaced by a misty luminescence that girdled man and boy.
Upon that, he ran up rapidly to the summit of the mountain and drew the Sword from his girdle, and leaned it toward Aklis, and it lengthened out over lands, the blade of it a beam of solid brilliance.
I opened up a gross or two of the Brazilians and made Mame put them on--rings, brooches, necklaces, eardrops, bracelets, girdles, and lockets.
Suburban Hospital, with terrible abdominal pains of apparently psychogenic origin, not responding to muscle relaxants or tranquilizers, while a doctor and two aides watched in helpless horror as his own muscles cracked his pelvic girdle into sharp knives of bone, and his child was born without pain four thousand miles away.