Definition of "girdle" []

• A belt or sash worn around the waist. (noun)
• Something that encircles like a belt. (noun)
• An elasticized, flexible undergarment worn over the waist and hips, especially by women, to give the body a more slender appearance. (noun)
• A band made around the trunk of a tree by the removal of a strip of bark. (noun)
• The edge of a cut gem held by the setting. (noun)

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• "When he took them to be to him for a people, it was that they might be to him for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory, as a girdle is an ornament to a man, and particularly the curious girdle of the ephod was to the high-priest for glory and for beauty."
• "7 Then I went to Euphrates, and digged, and took the girdle from the place where I had hid it: and, behold, the girdle was marred, it was profitable for nothing."
• "They're wearing girdles and also underneath the girdle is a little garter sewed under the girdle and that garter rubs the skin sometimes."