单词 | girdling |
释义 | girdlingn. 1. The action of girdle v. in various senses. Also girdling in. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > removing bark from trees > removing circle of bark ring1700 girdling1792 ringing1816 girdle1825 notch-ringing1884 ringbarking1938 1792 J. Belknap Hist. New-Hampsh. III. 131 The method is that of girdling; which is done by making a circular incision through the bark, and leaving them to die standing. 1836 T. Arnold Let. in A. P. Stanley Life of Dr. Arnold (1844) II. viii. 48 The girdling in of the mountains round the valley of our home is..an image..of the encircling of the everlasting arms. 1897 L. H. Bailey Princ. Fruit-growing 291 Girdling or ringing to set trees into bearing is an old and well-known practice. 2. The material of which girdles are made. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric for specific purpose > [noun] > for clothing > for other specific items of clothing bleauntc1314 hosing1340 tays1350 belting1567 gartering1571 footing1707 girdling1720 petticoating1738 lungi1779 Bath-coating1791 trousering1830 costuming1833 jacketing1847 skirting1882 kitenge1960 1720 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth VI. 248 Gartering, Girdling, Tape. 3. attributive, as girdling-place. ΚΠ 1658 T. Bromhall Treat. Specters i. 118 He was become so weak and feeble below his girdling place or middle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2019). girdlingadj. That girdles or surrounds. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [adjective] circumjacent1490 circumstant1545 circumvoisin1548 environing?a1560 encompassing1571 ambient1572 succingent1578 embracing1590 circling1594 girdling1598 circumdant1600 rounding1600 all round?1611 circumferent1620 circumsistent1625 circuiting1632 circulating1632 encircling1632 surrounding1637 begirting1645 circumambient1648 circumstantial1650 girding1658 skirtingc1735 entwining1737 circumadjacent1780 belting1808 engirdling1843 encyclic1850 engirding1852 zoning1853 roundaboutc1860 begirding1877 wraparound1957 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iii. 71 The girdling shot to discharge at 20 pases off, and not farther. 1624 Trag. Nero iii. sig. E1v The girdling flame, doth with vnkind embraces Compasse the Citie. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV clxxiv. 90 Where yon bar Of girdling mountains intercepts the sight. 1821 J. Baillie Columbus in Metrical Legends xxxvii Mountains..Whose frozen peaks..Above the girdling clouds rear'd far in upper air. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. vi. iii. 312 The Château Polignac still frowns aloft,..amid the blue girdling mountains of Auvergne. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xvi. 185 Florence with its girdling stone towers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1658adj.1598 |
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