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

Example Sentences

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engirdle engirdled engirdling

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 Bell, Robert E.

A considerable portion of the abbey buildings that engirdle the summit of the rocky islet of Mont St. Michel belong to the Norman period, although much of the work is Gothic.

From France by Home, Gordon Cochrane

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 Trask, Katrina

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 Weaver, George Sumner

Whom seekest thou, where unclomb rocks engirdle Peace, smiling peace? 

From The Death of Balder by Borrow, George Henry

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 Harris, William Cornwallis

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 Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Harald firm-oathed! oft hast thou the earth engirdled with thy ships; Svein, too, through the sound sailed the King to meet.

From The Sagas of Olaf Tryggvason and of Harald The Tyrant (Harald Haardraade) by Hearn, Ethel Harriet

All, in a word, sloped and softened to the south; and yet the whole vale was engirdled by eminences, more or less high, except at two points.

From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 2 by Poe, Edgar Allan

Still higher, on their left, the elevation called Bulbarrow, or Bealbarrow, well-nigh the highest in South Wessex, swelled into the sky, engirdled by its earthen trenches.

From Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Hardy, Thomas

It winds, a continuous strip of houses and factories, for 9 m. along the deep valley, on both banks of the Wupper, which is crossed by numerous bridges, the engirdling hills crowned with woods.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 2 "Ehud" to "Electroscope" by Various

In a vast, irregular circle, a wheel of life with the fort as its hub, spread an engirdling encampment.

From The Emigrant Trail by Bonner, Geraldine

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 Stretton, Hesba

He nodded towards the building, which seemed to be still holding the sunlight of the day, so golden-white it shone under the evening sky, and against the engirdling forest.

From Eleanor by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

At 7 o'clock a curious silence fell suddenly on the battered city and the engirdling trenches.

From Deeds that Won the Empire Historic Battle Scenes by Fitchett, W. H. (William Henry)