Girdle vs Surcingle - What's the difference?
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That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
* Shakespeare
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
The zodiac; also, the equator.
* Campbell
* Cowper
The line of greatest circumference of a diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
(mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
The clitellum of an earthworm.
(Scottish, Northern English)
To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
a long unpadded strap to pass over and keep in place a blanket, pack or saddle on an animal
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a piece of tack wrapped around the belly of a horse, to use when longeing, also know as lungeing; (roller in UK and Australasia)
a girdle to fasten a garment, especially a cassock
Girdle is a related term of surcingle.
As nouns the difference between girdle and surcingle
is that girdle is that which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference while surcingle is a long unpadded strap to pass over and keep in place a blanket, pack or saddle on an animal.As a verb girdle
is to gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.girdle
English
Noun
(en noun)- within the girdle of these walls
- their breasts girded with golden girdles
- that gems the starry girdle of the year
- from the world's girdle to the frozen pole
- (Francis Bacon)
- (Knight)
- (Raymond)