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单词 to put a girdle about
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to put (also make, cast) a girdle (round) about
b. to put (also make, cast) a girdle (round) about: to go round, make the circuit of (the earth). Obsolete.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > cause to move in circle or curve [verb (transitive)] > move in circle round something
umgoa1300
compassc1384
gyrec1420
environ?a1425
circuitc1550
revolve1559
circle1582
to put (also make, cast) a girdle (round) about1600
encirclea1616
encompass1640
whirla1657
circulate1685
gird1688
circumgyrate1868
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 175 Ile put a girdle, round about the earth, in forty minutes. View more context for this quotation
1612 T. Dekker If it be not Good sig. C2v About the world My trauailes make a girdle.
1621 T. Middleton Sunne in Aries sig. Bv Sir Francis Drake..did cast a Girdle about the world.
c1626 Dick of Devonshire (1955) 873 They would have thought themselves as famous as their Countryman that putt a girdle round about ye world.
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