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Girdle :: Girdle (n.) That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus..

Ungird :: Ungird (v. t.) To loose the girdle or band of; to unbind; to unload.

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

Shingles :: Shingles (n.) A kind of herpes (Herpes zoster) which spreads half way around the body like a girdle, and is usually attended with violent neuralgic pain..

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

Gird :: Gird (v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest..

Girdle :: Girdle (n.) The clitellus of an earthworm.

Camber :: Camber (n.) An upward concavity in the under side of a beam, girder, or lintel; also, a slight upward concavity in a straight arch. See Hogback..

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..

Succinct :: Succinct (a.) Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.

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

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..

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..

Seawand :: Seawand () See Sea girdles.

Engird :: Engird (v. t.) To gird; to encompass.

Engirded :: Engirded (imp. & p. p.) of Engir.

Gain :: Gain (n.) A square or beveled notch cut out of a girder, binding joist, or other timber which supports a floor beam, so as to receive the end of the floor beam..

Girt :: Girt () imp. & p. p. of Gird.

Floor :: Floor (n.) The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2..

Twister :: Twister (n.) A girder.

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