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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   girdle

   • IPA[ˈɡərd(ə)l]

   美式

   • n.
     a belt or cord worn around the waist.；a woman's elasticized corset extending from waist to thigh.
   • v.
     encircle (the body) with or as a girdle or belt；surround; encircle

   • verb: girdle, 3rd person present: girdles, gerund or present participle: girdling, past tense: girdled, past participle: girdled

2. • 釋義

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a belt or cord worn around the waist. 同義詞 belt, sash, strap, cummerbund, waistband, ... 更多band, girth, cord, fillet, obi, rarebaldric, cincture, ceinture, cestus, cingulum, zone
   • ▪ a woman's elasticized corset extending from waist to thigh. 同義詞 corset, corselet, foundation garment, panty girdle, truss
   • ▪ a thing that surrounds something like a belt or girdle a communications girdle around the world
   • ▪ either of two sets of bones encircling the body, to which the limbs are attached.
   • ▪ the part of a cut gem dividing the crown from the base and embraced by the setting.
   • ▪ a ring around a tree made by removing bark.

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. encircle (the body) with or as a girdle or belt the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist
   • ▪ surround; encircle the chain of volcanoes that girdles the Pacific
   • 2. cut through the bark all the way around (a tree or branch), typically in order to kill it or to kill a branch to make the tree more fruitful sometimes the trees were completely girdled and died