Results for girdle

Definition of girdle:

• part of speech: (noun)

  A band for the waist; inclosure.

• part of speech: (noun)

  A band or belt for the waist; a zone; in Scot., a round iron plate on which bread is baked.

• part of speech: (verb)

  To surround; to bind; to enclose.

• part of speech: (verb transitive)

  To bind; inclose; detach a circular strip of bark from, as a tree.

Usage examples for girdle:

“ You must greet the knight a hundred times in my name, and will place my girdle in his hand, and this my golden ring. ” French Mediaeval Romances from the Lays of Marie de France, - Marie de France.

“ A large bunch of keys hung at her girdle ” In the Courts of Memory 1858-1875., - L. de Hegermann-Lindencrone.