2. To inclose; to environ; to shut in.
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Those sleeping stones,
That as a waist doth girdle you about. --Shak.
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3. To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it. [U. S.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
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