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Girth vs Perambulation - What's the difference?

girth | perambulation |

As nouns the difference between girth and perambulation

is that girth is the distance measured around an object while perambulation is (rare) a survey, a tour; a walking around.

As a verb girth

is to bind as if with a girth or band.

girth

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The distance measured around an object.
  • A band passed under the belly of an animal to hold various types of saddles in place.
  • * '>citation
  • The part of an animal around which the girth fits.
  • (informal) One's waistline circumference, most often a large one.
  • * Addison
    • He's a lusty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth .
  • A small horizontal brace or girder.

    • Synonyms

    * circumference * cinch

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To bind as if with a girth or band.
    • (Johnson)

    Anagrams

    * (l), (l)

    perambulation

    English

    (wikipedia perambulation)

    Noun

    (s)
  • (rare) A survey, a tour; a walking around.
  • (legal) An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.

    • Quotations

    *1902 : Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society , published by the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society *:Another forest not named in the perambulation is that of . *1929 : Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society , published by the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society *:The earliest known reference to the stone is that in the perambulation of the parish of recorded in the Cartulary of Christchurch Priory .

    Synonyms

    * (English legal ceremony ) bannering

    References

    *Radin Law Dictionary , Max Radin; Oceana Publications, 1970.