Bilang isang pangngalan, ang "girdle" ay may ilang iba't ibang kahulugan sa diksyunaryo:

1. Sinturon o sintas na isinusuot sa baywang upang hawakan ang damit sa lugar o para sa dekorasyon.
2. Isang banda o strip ng materyal na pumapalibot sa isang bagay.
3. Isang nababaluktot, pabilog na banda ng metal, katad, o iba pang materyal na ginagamit upang palakasin o palakasin ang isang istraktura o bagay.
4. Ang waistline o lugar na nakapalibot sa baywang.
5. Isang hiwa ng karne mula sa gilid ng isang hayop, karaniwang ginagamit para sa pag-ihaw o pagprito.

Bilang isang pandiwa, ang ibig sabihin ng "girdle" :

1. Upang palibutan o palibutan ng sinturon o banda ang isang bagay.
2. Upang putulin ang balat o panlabas na patong ng isang puno ng kahoy sa isang kumpletong bilog, kadalasan upang patayin ang puno o upang mapadali ang pagkolekta ng katas.
3. Upang paghigpitan o limitahan ang isang bagay o isang tao, na parang sa pamamagitan ng pagkubkob o paghigpit sa kanila.

Synonyms

Sentence Examples

1. With this Sancho consoled himself, and assured the princess she might rely upon it that he had seen the head of the giant, and more by token it had a beard that reached to the girdle, and that if it was not to be seen now it was because everything that happened in that house went by enchantment, as he himself had proved the last time he had lodged there.

2. On his shoulders and breast he had a green satin collegiate hood, and covering his head a black Milanese bonnet, and his snow-white beard fell below his girdle.

3. Her cap was embroidered with pearls, the pins in her hair were of gold and diamonds, her girdle was of Turkey silk, with large embroidered flowers, her bodice and skirt were of cashmere, her apron of Indian muslin, and the buttons of her corset were of jewels.

4. He wore a vest of garnet-colored velvet, with buttons of cut gold a silk waistcoat covered with embroidery a Roman scarf tied round his neck a cartridge-box worked with gold, and red and green silk sky-blue velvet breeches, fastened above the knee with diamond buckles garters of deerskin, worked with a thousand arabesques, and a hat whereon hung ribbons of all colors two watches hung from his girdle, and a splendid poniard was in his belt.

5. At this challenge, Vampa rose quickly, drawing at the same moment a pistol from his girdle.

6. Under the oldest and thickest of these trees, reclining on cushions, sat my father my mother was at his feet, and I, childlike, amused myself by playing with his long white beard which descended to his girdle, or with the diamond-hilt of the scimitar attached to his girdle.

7. A tomahawk and scalping knife, of English manufacture, were in his girdle while a short military rifle, of that sort with which the policy of the whites armed their savage allies, lay carelessly across his bare and sinewy knee.

8. He also bore a knife in a girdle of wampum, like that which confined the scanty garments of the Indian, but no tomahawk.

9. Then, replacing his knife and tomahawk in his girdle, the warrior moved silently to the edge of the rock which was most concealed from the banks of the river.