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Girdling :: Girdling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Girdl.

Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..

Ingirt :: Ingirt (v. t.) To encircle to gird; to engirt.

Engirding :: Engirding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Engir.

Guard :: Guard (n.) To fasten by binding; to gird.

Postclavicle :: Postclavicle (n.) A bone in the pectoral girdle of many fishes projecting backward from the clavicle.

Lyriferous :: Lyriferous (a.) Having a lyre-shaped shoulder girdle, as certain fishes..

Precoracoid :: Precoracoid (n.) The anterior part of the coracoid (often closely united with the clavicle) in the shoulder girdle of many reptiles and amphibians.

Gipsire :: Gipsire (n.) A kind of pouch formerly worn at the girdle.

Girdle :: Girdle (n.) The zodiac; also, the equator..

Surcingled :: Surcingle (n.) The girdle of a cassock, by which it is fastened round the waist..

Undergird :: Undergird (v. t.) To blind below; to gird round the bottom.

Engirdle :: Engirdle (v. t.) To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.

Girdle :: Girdle (n.) A griddle.

Ring :: Ring (v. t.) To make a ring around by cutting away the bark; to girdle; as, to ring branches or roots..

Mortise :: Mortise (v. t.) To join or fasten by a tenon and mortise; as, to mortise a beam into a post, or a joist into a girder..

Waist :: Waist (n.) A girdle or belt for the waist.

Span :: Span (v. t.) The spread or extent of an arch between its abutments, or of a beam, girder, truss, roof, bridge, or the like, between its supports..

Deflection :: Deflection (n.) The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from its own weight or by reason of a load.

Cutpurse :: Cutpurse (n.) One who cuts purses for the sake of stealing them or their contents (an act common when men wore purses fastened by a string to their girdles); one who steals from the person; a pickpocke.

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