Meaning & use
girdle
A close-fitting undergarment worn to support or shape the waist and hips, or, more generally, a belt encircling the body.
See it in a sentence
Her grandmother still kept an old-fashioned girdle from decades before elastic fabrics became common.
The knight wore a leather girdle at his waist to hold his sword in place.
A note on using this word
As a verb, to girdle means to encircle something completely, as in trees girdled by a ring of stripped bark.
Words with a similar meaning
beltcorset
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Another way to use it
2. verb
To encircle something completely, or to cut a ring around a tree's bark to kill it.
Loggers girdled the unwanted trees so they would die and could be removed later.
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