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# girdle

«girdle» in Mova's school dictionary: **a belt or band worn round the waist, especially in old tales** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (girdles); verb (girdle, girdles, girdled, girdling)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A girdle is a belt or band worn round the waist, especially in old tales. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/girdle/#m1)

2) (verb) To girdle is to put a band round something or to surround it, as in «girdled blanket». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/girdle/#m2)

3) A girdle-cake is a flat cake cooked on a hot iron plate, a Scottish word. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/girdle/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales a girdle is a sash or belt that holds a cloak or dress in place; a girdled blanket is one tied round with a band; in cooking «girdle-cakes» are flat cakes made on a griddle

### examples

- She tied a red girdle round her waist. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/girdle/#x1)
- Underneath his girdled blanket he hid the stolen gold. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/girdle/#x2)
- Her mother made girdle-cakes for tea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/girdle/#x3)
- The old queen wore a jewelled girdle at the feast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/girdle/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [the aprons, and the mantelets, and the cloaks, and the girdles;](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.78/)
- [And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.257/)
- [Overflow thy land as the Nile, O daughter of Tarshish! there is no girdle any more.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/ISA.478/)
- [So I got a girdle according to the word of the LORD, and put it upon my loins.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/JER.372/)
- [Let it be unto him as the garment which he putteth on, and for the girdle wherewith he is girded continually.'](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/jps/PSA.2033/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «girdle» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/girdle/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.