GIRTH

n. v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.

2.
n.

The measure round the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything. He's a lu sty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth. Addison.

3.
n.

A small horizontal brace or girder.

4.
v.

To bind as with a girth. [R.] Johnson.


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