A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.
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.
A small horizontal brace or girder.
To bind as with a girth. [R.] Johnson.
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