girdle

girdle has 14 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• n.. A griddle.
• n.. That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.
• n.. The zodiac; also, the equator.
• n.. The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.
• n.. A thin bed or stratum of stone.
• n.. The clitellus of an earthworm.
• v. t.. To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
• v. t.. To inclose; to environ; to shut in.
• v. t.. To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.
• n.. a woman's close-fitting foundation garment
• n.. a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers
• n.. an encircling or ringlike structure