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单词 girdling
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girdlingn.

/ˈɡəːdlɪŋ/
Etymology: < girdle v. + -ing suffix1.
1. The action of girdle v. in various senses. Also girdling in.
ΘΚΠ
the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > removing bark from trees > removing circle of bark
ring1700
girdling1792
ringing1816
girdle1825
notch-ringing1884
ringbarking1938
1792 J. 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.
1836 T. Arnold Let. in A. P. Stanley Life of Dr. Arnold (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.
1897 L. H. Bailey Princ. Fruit-growing 291 Girdling or ringing to set trees into bearing is an old and well-known practice.
2. The material of which girdles are made.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for clothing > for other specific items of clothing
bleauntc1314
hosing1340
tays1350
belting1567
gartering1571
footing1707
girdling1720
petticoating1738
lungi1779
Bath-coating1791
trousering1830
costuming1833
jacketing1847
skirting1882
kitenge1960
1720 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth VI. 248 Gartering, Girdling, Tape.
3. attributive, as girdling-place.
ΚΠ
1658 T. Bromhall Treat. Specters i. 118 He was become so weak and feeble below his girdling place or middle.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2019).

girdlingadj.

/ˈɡəːdlɪŋ/
Etymology: < girdle v. + -ing suffix2.
That girdles or surrounds.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [adjective]
circumjacent1490
circumstant1545
circumvoisin1548
environing?a1560
encompassing1571
ambient1572
succingent1578
embracing1590
circling1594
girdling1598
circumdant1600
rounding1600
all round?1611
circumferent1620
circumsistent1625
circuiting1632
circulating1632
encircling1632
surrounding1637
begirting1645
circumambient1648
circumstantial1650
girding1658
skirtingc1735
entwining1737
circumadjacent1780
belting1808
engirdling1843
encyclic1850
engirding1852
zoning1853
roundaboutc1860
begirding1877
wraparound1957
1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 71 The girdling shot to discharge at 20 pases off, and not farther.
1624 Trag. Nero iii. sig. E1v The girdling flame, doth with vnkind embraces Compasse the Citie.
1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV clxxiv. 90 Where yon bar Of girdling mountains intercepts the sight.
1821 J. Baillie Columbus in Metrical Legends xxxvii Mountains..Whose frozen peaks..Above the girdling clouds rear'd far in upper air.
1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vi. iii. 312 The Château Polignac still frowns aloft,..amid the blue girdling mountains of Auvergne.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xvi. 185 Florence with its girdling stone towers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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