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    girdle
    /ˈɡəːd(ə)l/

    noun

    verb

    • 1. encircle (the body) with a girdle: "the Friar loosened the rope that girdled his waist"
    • 2. cut through the bark all the way round (a tree or branch), typically in order to kill it or to kill a branch to make the tree more fruitful: "sometimes the trees were completely girdled and died"

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