Usually means: Supportive band encircling the body.
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We found 44 dictionaries that define the word girdle:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. girdle: Merriam-Webster
  2. girdle, girdle: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. girdle: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. girdle: Collins English Dictionary
  5. girdle: Vocabulary.com
  6. Girdle, girdle: Wordnik
  7. girdle: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. girdle: Wiktionary
  9. girdle: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. girdle: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. girdle: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. girdle: Dictionary.com
  13. girdle: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. girdle: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Girdle (chiton), Girdle (disambiguation), Girdle (undergarment), Girdle: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Girdle: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. girdle: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. girdle: Rhymezone
  19. Girdle: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. girdle: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. Girdle: E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook
  22. Girdle, Girdle: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. girdle: FreeDictionary.org
  24. girdle: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. girdle: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. girdle: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. girdle: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. girdle: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. girdle: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. girdle: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Girdle: Easton Bible
  2. Girdle: Smith's Bible Dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Botanical Terms (No longer online)
  2. Fishkeeping glossary (No longer online)
  3. Glossary of Entomology (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. girdle: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Girdle: Gems and Precious Stones
  2. Glossary of Diamonds (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
noun:  A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
noun:  A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
noun:  The zodiac; also, the equator.
noun:  The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
noun:  (mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
noun:  The clitellum of an earthworm.
noun:  The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
verb:  (transitive) To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
verb:  (transitive) To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
noun:  (Scotland, Northern English) Alternative form of griddle [A stone or metal flat plate or surface on which food is fried or baked.]

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