What is "girdled"

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.]

vb. (en-past of: girdle)