| 单词 | girting-stead |
| 释义 | > as lemmasgirting-stead ˈgirting n. (attributive in quots.) girting-place: (a) that part of a horse's body where the girth is worn; (b) that part of the trunk where a tree is girthed or measured; girting-stead = girdlestead n. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > barrel or middle of horse > part of belly fore-bowels1566 girting1607 girth1830 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 144 They which are small in their girting steade about their loynes, doe much loue hunting. 1676 London Gaz. No. 1108/4 A large brown bay Mare..with a hole on her ribs..near the girting place. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Felling To know the Value of a Tree standing, you may girt it, allowing for the Bark, and so much as you think it will measure less in the girting Place than at the Butt [etc.]. < as lemmas |
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