girdle

Significado (Inglês)

1. That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
2. A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
3. A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
4. The zodiac; also, the equator.
5. The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
6. A thin bed or stratum of stone.
7. The clitellum of an earthworm.
8. The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.

belt

sash

waist-band

outer clothing

waist belt

girdle bone

woven belt

waist towel

cingule

clitellum

waist’s belt

zone in general

woman’s girdle

support belt

Freqüência

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈɡɝdl̩/

From Middle English girdel, gerdel, gurdel, from Old English gyrdel, from Proto-West Germanic *gurdil, from Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz (“girdle, belt”), equivalent to gird + -le. cognates Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäddel (“belt”), West Frisian gurdle, gurle, gurl (“belt”), Dutch gordel (“belt”), German Gürtel (“belt”), Yiddish גאַרטל (gartl, “belt”) (whence gartel, a doublet of girdle), Swedish gördel (“girdle”), Icelandic gyrðill (“girdle”).