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▪ I. girdling, vbl. n.|ˈgɜːdlɪŋ|
[f. girdle v. + -ing1.]
1. The action of the verb girdle in various senses. Also girdling in.
1792J. Belknap Hist. New Hampsh. III. 131 The method is that of girdling; which is done by making a circular incision through the bark, and leaving them to die standing. 1836Arnold Let. in Stanley Life & Corr. (1844) II. viii. 48 The girdling in of the mountains round the valley of our home is..an image..of the encircling of the everlasting arms. 1897Bailey Princ. Fruit-grow. 291 Girdling or ringing to set trees into bearing is an old and well-known practice.
2. The material of which girdles are made.
1719D'Urfey Pills VI. 248 Gartering, Girdling, Tape.
3. attrib., as girdling-place.
1658Bromhall Treat. Specters i. 118 He was become so weak and feeble below his girdling place or middle.
▪ II. girdling, ppl. a.|ˈgɜːdlɪŋ|
[f. girdle v. + -ing2.]
That girdles or surrounds.
1598Barret Theor. Warres iii. ii. 71 The girdling shot to discharge at 20 pases off, and not farther. 1624Trag. Nero iii. iii. in Bullen O. Pl. I. 52 The girdling flame doth with unkind embraces Compasse the Citie. 1818Byron Ch. Har. iv. 174 Where yon bar Of girdling mountains intercepts the sight. 1821J. Baillie Metr. Leg., Columbus xxxvii, Mountains..Whose frozen peaks..Above the girdling clouds rear'd far in upper air. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. vi. iii, The Château Polignac still frowns aloft..amid the blue girdling mountains of Auvergne. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola ii. iv, Florence with its girdling stone towers. |