Usually means: Measurement around an object's circumference.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word girth:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. girth: Merriam-Webster
  2. girth: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. girth: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. girth: Collins English Dictionary
  5. girth: Vocabulary.com
  6. Girth, girth: Wordnik
  7. girth: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. girth: Wiktionary
  9. girth: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. girth: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. girth: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. girth: Dictionary.com
  13. girth: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. girth: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Girth (Pushing Daisies), Girth (band), Girth (geometry), Girth (graph theory), Girth (tack), Girth: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Girth: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. girth: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. girth: Rhymezone
  19. Girth: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. girth: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. girth: FreeDictionary.org
  22. girth: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. girth: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. girth: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  2. girth: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. girth: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. girth: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. girth: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Girth: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. girth: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Farrier & Hoofcare (No longer online)
  2. Sandahl, Middle English Sea Terms (No longer online)

(Note: See girthed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place.
noun:  The part of an animal around which the girth fits.
noun:  (informal) One's waistline circumference, most often a large one.
noun:  A small horizontal brace or girder.
noun:  The distance measured around an object.
noun:  (graph theory) The length of the shortest cycle in a graph.
verb:  To bind as if with a girth or band.

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