Girth vs Girthed - What's the difference?
girth | girthed |
The distance measured around an object.
A band passed under the belly of an animal to hold various types of saddles in place.
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The part of an animal around which the girth fits.
(informal) One's waistline circumference, most often a large one.
* Addison
A small horizontal brace or girder.
Of a sizeable girth; portly.
* 1858 , Charles Dickens (ed.), Down among the Dutchmen'' (in ''Household Words volumes 17-18, page 249)
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As a noun girth
is the distance measured around an object.As a verb girth
is to bind as if with a girth or band.As an adjective girthed is
of a sizeable girth; portly.girth
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Noun
(en noun)- He's a lusty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth .
Synonyms
* circumference * cinchAnagrams
* (l), (l)girthed
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Adjective
(en adjective)- He is quite of the Pelissier build; rotund, and girthed , and strapped down; with a grey poll, and dyed moustaches.
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