engirdle

American  

[en-gur-dl] / ɛnˈgɜr dl /

verb (used with object)

engirdled, engirdling

1. to engird.

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Etymology

Origin of engirdle

First recorded in 1595–1605; en- ¹ + girdle

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Example Sentences

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engirdle engirdled engirdling

Why engirdle its waist in warmth and cordage, and expose its feet to every storm and frost, to mud and snow?

From Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. by George Sumner Weaver

If you choose, plant the foot of the ladder in a fiery test and engirdle each round with a forest of thorns.

From The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist by Robert E. Bell

The seas which engirdle this island," the Ambassador said thoughtfully, "have brought the English great weal, as they may bring to her much woe.

From The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips (Edward Phillips) Oppenheim

Fair waist that curves beneath the heart I love, I shall engirdle you with priceless gems Won by my prowess for your perfect grace.

From Under King Constantine by Katrina Trask

The columns of the palace reach up to heaven, but no walls engirdle them, only curtains green, white, and blue,—whilst the warm sweet breeze blows always thither from green prairies.”

From A Victor of Salamis by William Stearns Davis

Not a cloud blotted the sparkling vault overhead, which now blazed out in a perfect galaxy of light, engirdled by the luminous zone of the milky way.

From The Highlands of Ethiopia by William Cornwallis Harris

The place was still engirdled by a ring of smouldering, glowing ashes, the heat from whose red caverns almost blinded us at first.

From The White Shield by Bertram Mitford

That hunger for affection too long withheld was for the time displaced by an almost physical sense of an implacable past which still engirdled her.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy

On Sundays and festivals we went to Mass together, and spent our leisure in excursions in the fields and pleasant groves with which Lucca is engirdled.

From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett

We moved our hands, for example, when we were dwellers on the earth, and, in so doing, gave vibration to the atmosphere which engirdled it.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4 by Edgar Allan Poe

Puck alone could quite have reached her standard with his engirdling of the earth in forty minutes.

From Elsie Inglis The Woman with the Torch by Lena Ashwell

Hills and dells, mountains and glens; wild flowers everywhere; and the blue eternal sea dotted with many a snow-white sail, engirdling all.

From The Island of Gold A Sailor's Yarn by Gordon Stables

It is a large and deep stone basin, half full of warm water, in which small fishes, snakes and tortoises disport themselves; the massive engirdling walls demonstrate its Roman origin.

From Fountains in the Sand Rambles Among the Oases of Tunisia by Norman Douglas

For it is a walled city without suburbs, scarce a building of any kind beyond the parapet and fosse engirdling it.

From Mayne Reid A Memoir of his Life by Elizabeth Reid

I have but to close my eyes, and my memory paints it for me in my brain, with its innumerable islets engirdling it, as if to ward off its busy, indefatigable enemy, the sea.

From The Doctor's Dilemma by Hesba Stretton

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