Usually means: Removing bark to encircle trunk.
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  1. girdling: Merriam-Webster
  2. girdling: Collins English Dictionary
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  5. girdling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
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  8. Girdling: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  9. Girdling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. Girdling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. girdling: FreeDictionary.org
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Definitions from Wikipedia (Girdling)

noun:  Girdling, also called ring-barking, is the circumferential removal or injury of the bark (consisting of cork cambium or "phellogen", phloem, cambium and sometimes also the xylem) of a branch or trunk of a woody plant.


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