girding

See also: girðing

English

Verb

girding

1. present participle of gird

Noun

girding (plural girdings)

1. A binding or encircling.
   • 1823, Charles Butler, A continuation of the Rev. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints to the Present Time, page 23:

     Bossuet thus beautifully addresses the Saviour of the world, when the girdings of his childhood were first untied […]

Anagrams

• griding, ridging