girth
noun
verb (used with object)
Origin of girth
Examples from the Web for girth
Contemporary Examples of girth
The couch is too deep, and he is growing heavier; he will be Buddha-like in girth at some point soon.
Frida is a colossal woman, in girth and stature, and she becomes the dark star at the center of this disconcerting debut.
Fairly or not, many people see that kind of amplitude of girth as a sign of irresponsibility or lack of discipline or something.
First came Kevin Smith, who was not allowed to board a Southwest Airlines flight because of his girth.
Mark Spiegler waddles, shifting his girth from one foot to the other, swaying slightly side to side.
Historical Examples of girth
Let me but get my girth tightened and we may soon be out of danger's way.'
Micah ClarkeArthur Conan Doyle
It was a tree that might have had some twelve feet of girth.
Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2)William Delisle Hay
The saddle was black with long skirts, an' it had only one girth.
Dwellers in the HillsMelville Davisson Post
He had the girth of an earth in him and had to do something with it.
The Voice of the MachinesGerald Stanley Lee
Those he measured were only twenty-one feet long, and two feet in girth.
The Western WorldW.H.G. Kingston