A band or belt; something drawn round the waist of a person, and tied or buckled; as a girdle of fine lines; a leathern girdle.

Inclosure; circumference.

The zodiac.

Around iron plate for baking.

Among jewelers, the line which encompasses the stone, parallel to the horizon.

To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.

To inclose; to enrivon; to shut in.

In America, to make a circular incision, like a belt, through the bark and alburnum of a tree to kill it.