girdles in English

noun
1
a belt or cord worn around the waist.
Such gems could be woven into important clothing, on belts and girdles , mounted as jewellery, or just collected for their own sake.
verb
1
encircle (the body) with or as a girdle or belt.
the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist
2
cut through the bark all the way around (a tree or branch), typically in order to kill it or to kill a branch to make the tree more fruitful.
If these are not removed they can girdle the tree, cutting into the trunk and eventually killing the tree.

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1. Girdles, panty-girdles and corselettes (including bodies with adjustable straps)

2. Bruted girdles do have a drawback.

3. A chain of volcanoes girdles the Pacific.

4. Bruted Girdles can look Frosty, White, Grainy and Rough

5. Birthing girdles were banned by Protestant bishops in post-Reformation England

6. Bruted girdles have a frosty look and a grainy, sugar-like texture

7. “HERMITS donned iron shackles, chains, barbed girdles and spiked collars . . .

8. The Appendicular skeleton consists of the bones of the limbs and limb girdles

9. Avoid wearing tight panty girdles or below-the-knee stockings, Mohler also advised.

10. There are three primary types of diamond girdles: faceted, polished, and unpolished (Bruted)

11. The head and pectoral girdles are covered with large dermal bones.

12. The truth is that most of us would wear our girdles only until takeoff.

13. Monkwords, marybeads jabber on their girdles : roguewords, tough nuggets patter in their pockets.

14. Unpolished girdles are also referred to as ‘Bruted’ and have a frosted appearance

15. Corselets are one-piece female foundation garments that combine features of both bras and girdles

16. Ctenophores, variously known as comb jellies, sea gooseberries, sea walnuts, or Venus's girdles, are voracious predators

17. Synonyms for Begirds include girdles, girds, belts, encompasses, girts, engirds, circles, wraps, encircles and girths

18. Appendicular Skeleton The Appendicular skeleton consists of the bones of the limbs and limb girdles

19. The Appendicular skeleton includes the skeletal elements within the limbs, as well as supporting the pectoral and pelvic girdles

20. Caddis definition is - worsted yarn; specifically : a worsted ribbon or binding formerly used for garters and girdles.

21. The Appendicular skeleton consists of the bones of upper limbs, the bones of lower limbs and their girdles Tan bones

22. Quick facts about these voracious carnivores! The Comb Jelly (Ctenophores, Gooseberries, Sea Walnuts, Venus's Girdles, Warty Comb Jelly, Melon Jellyfish)

23.   These corset Busks can be used in traditional Victorian and Edwardian corsetry, as well as modern corsetry and also girdles

24. Some cutters believe that polished or faceted girdles reflect back inside the stone, so they will leave stones of K color or lower Bruted

25. They are often used, for example, to glue artificial hip appliances to femurs and pelvic girdles." Acetic acid is a byproduct of acetoxy RTV silicones, not Cyanoacrylates (CAs).

26. ‘Unlike sirens, Amphiumas retain both pairs of girdles and limbs, though both are reduced in size, and the limbs are often both difficult to discern and of decreased function in adults.’

27. Unlike sirens, Amphiumas retain both pairs of girdles and limbs, though both are reduced in size, and the limbs are often both difficult to discern and of decreased function in adults.

28. Examples of Childbirth in a Sentence women who choose to undergo Childbirth without the use of anesthetics and other drugs Recent Examples on the Web Medieval texts mention girdles lent to …

29. According to the University of the Western Cape, the Appendicular skeleton is comprised of the pelvic and shoulder girdles as well as the arms, legs, feet and hands that attach to them.

30. Other articles where Appendicular skeleton is discussed: human skeleton: …the skull, and (2) the Appendicular, to which the pelvic (hip) and pectoral (shoulder) girdles and the bones and cartilages of the limbs belong

31. Cutpurse (n.) also cut-purse, "one who steals by the method of cutting purses, a common practice when men wore their purses at their girdles" [Johnson], mid-14c., cutte-purs, from the verbal phrase, from cut (v.) + purse (n.)

32. ‘We were flipping Bannocks and oatcakes on girdles centuries before sun-dried-tomato ciabatta was invented.’ ‘As I sat in his farmhouse, discussing native sheep, Eunson told me about success of the cold mutton (roasted, but still pink and moist) and bere Bannocks that …

33. For these stereotyped responses it was the location of the stimulus which played a major role rather than the different distribution of muscle tonus or the segmental dermatomo-myotomal correspondence: in the trunk and limb girdles, the sensitive (reflexogenic) zones were localized directly over the respective muscle bellies; in the extremities they were more distally over the tendons and for the finger and/or toe movements, they were shifted toward the acral skin areas of the extremities.