Dictionary Entry
girdle
girdle is a 6-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A griddle. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
A griddle.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
The zodiac; also, the equator.
- 4noun
The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.
- 5noun
A thin bed or stratum of stone.
- 6noun
The clitellus of an earthworm.
- 7transitive verb
To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
- 8transitive verb
To inclose; to environ; to shut in.
- 9transitive verb
To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.
- 10noun
a woman's close-fitting foundation garment
- 11noun
a band of material around the waist that strengthens a skirt or trousers
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- 12noun
an encircling or ringlike structure
- 13verb
put a girdle on or around
"gird your loins"
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- 14verb
cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
"girdle the plant"
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