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Girdle vs Baldric - What's the difference?

girdle | baldric | Synonyms |

As nouns the difference between girdle and baldric

is that girdle is that which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference while baldric is a belt used to hold a sword, sometimes richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip.

As a verb girdle

is to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.

girdle

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
  • * Shakespeare
    • within the girdle of these walls
  • A belt or elasticated corset; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
  • * Bible, Revelations xv. 6
    • their breasts girded with golden girdles
  • The zodiac; also, the equator.
  • * Campbell
    • that gems the starry girdle of the year
  • * Cowper
    • from the world's girdle to the frozen pole
    (Francis Bacon)
  • The line of greatest circumference of a diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
    • (Knight)
  • (mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
    • (Raymond)
  • The clitellum of an earthworm.
  • (Scottish, Northern English)

    • Verb

    (girdl)
  • To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
  • To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.

    • Anagrams

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    baldric

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A belt used to hold a sword, sometimes richly ornamented, worn diagonally from shoulder to hip.
  • * 1833 , Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Lady of Shalott :
    • As he rode down to Camelot:/And from his blazon'd baldric slung/A mighty silver bugle hung,/And as he rode his armor rung/Beside remote Shalott.
  • * 1922 , Author, The Museum Journal, Vol. XIII , The University Museum, page 168:
    • The figure on the left, holding the severed head of the ox, has removed his sword with the baldric from which it is suspended and given it to his companion, who holds it beside his own with the baldric swinging.
  • * 1998 , Raymond E. Fiest, Krondor, the Betrayal , HarperCollins, page 16:
    • The man facing Locklear had his head covered with a red bandanna, and over his shoulder was a baldric from which a cutlass at had hung.