Engirdle

verb

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Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To encircle as if with a girdle. transitive

    "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."

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engirdengird

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"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."

Etymology

From en- + girdle.

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