engirdle

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Etymology

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From en- +‎ girdle.

Verb

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engirdle (third-person singular simple present engirdles, present participle engirdling, simple past and past participle engirdled)

  1. To encircle as if with a girdle.
    • 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 51:
      Still higher, on their left, the elevation called Bulbarrow, or Bealbarrow, well-nigh the highest in South Wessex, swelled into the sky, engirdled by its earthen trenches.

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