'Girdling' definitions:
Definition of 'Girdling'
From: GCIDE
- Girdle \Gir"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Girdled; p. pr. & vb. n. Girdling.]
- 1. To bind with a belt or sash; to gird. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To inclose; to environ; to shut in. [1913 Webster]
- Those sleeping stones, That as a waist doth girdle you about. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]