Definition of "engirdling" [engirdling]

• Present participle of engirdle. (verb)

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• "Jaan lifted hands to the crown engirdling his brows."
• "By it countries are bound together "in its globe engirdling web; so that when a modern economist concerns himself with the interdependence of nations he naturally looks to cotton for his most effective illustration.""
• "Only think of wearing a thick, heavy girdle of many pounds 'weight around the whole zone of the abdominal region -- a sort of engirdling poultice, heating and pressing like a girdle of hot lava, day after day and year after year!"