girdle

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈɡɜːdl̩/    美 /ˈɡɝdl̩/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference.
    — the girdle of the world
    the equator
  2. Alternative form of griddle. Northern-English,Scotland,alt-of,alternative
  3. A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
    — And the seven angels came out of the temple, having the seven plagues, clothed in pure and white linen, and having their breasts girded with golden girdles
  4. A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
  5. The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
  6. A thin bed or stratum of stone.
  7. The clitellum of an earthworm.
  8. The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
动词 v.
  1. To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means. transitive
    — The Equator, as everyone knows, is an imaginary line or circle girdling the Earth half-way between the North and South poles.
  2. To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark. transitive
    — The ordinary large reddish "hen hawks," which circle high above meadows, are doing great good to the farmer by feeding upon the mice and other creatures which steal his grain and girdle his trees.

词形变化

girdles plural girdles present,singular,third-person girdling participle,present girdled participle,past girdled past girdles plural

词汇关系

衍生词
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词源

From Middle English girdel, gerdel, gurdel, from Old English gyrdel, from Proto-West Germanic *gurdil, from Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz (“girdle, belt”), equivalent to gird + -le.
Cognates
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäddel (“belt”), West Frisian gurdle, gurle, gurl (“belt”), Dutch gordel (“belt”), German Gürtel (“belt”), Yiddish גאַרטל (gartl, “belt”) (whence gartel, a doublet of girdle), Swedish gördel (“girdle”), Icelandic gyrðill (“girdle”).
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