Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To surround or encircle as with a girdle.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To surround as with a girdle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To
encircle orsurround , as with agirdle .
Etymologies
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Examples
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No; if you could mount to the stars and do yacht voyages under the belts of Jupiter or stalk deer on the ring of Saturn it would still begirdle you.
The Map of Life Conduct and Character William Edward Hartpole Lecky 1870
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Like a ring of lightning, they, volleying and ca-ira-ing, begirdle her from shore to shore.
The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Stately masonries, long-drawn arches, cloisters, sounding aisles buttress it, begirdle it far and wide.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. Thomas Carlyle 1838
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Stately masonries, longdrawn arches, cloisters, sounding aisles buttress it, begirdle it far and wide.
Past and Present Thomas Carlyle 1838
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