Definition of girdle

• n. - A griddle.
• n. - That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus.
• n. - The zodiac; also, the equator.
• n. - The line ofgreatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting. See Illust. of Brilliant.
• n. - A thin bed or stratum of stone.
• n. - The clitellus of an earthworm.
• v. t. - To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.
• v. t. - To inclose; to environ; to shut in.
• v. t. - To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.