girth

Meaning

1. A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place.
2. The part of an animal around which the girth fits.
3. (informal) One's waistline circumference, most often a large one.
4. A small horizontal brace or girder.
5. The distance measured around an object.
6. The length of the shortest cycle in a graph.

circumference

cinch

circumference of a circle

tie beam

measurement around waist

measurement

bond beam

tie wire

saddle-girth

belly band

ring beam

strand wire bond

tieline

abdominal bandage

borough

measure tape

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɡɜːθ/

From Middle English girth, gerth, gyrth, from Old Norse gjǫrð, from Proto-Germanic *gerdō, from Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ- (“to encircle, enclose; belt”). Cognate with Gothic 𐌲𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌳𐌰 (gairda), Icelandic gjörð. Also related to German Gurt, English gird, Albanian ngërthej (“to tie, bind, fasten”).