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engirdle en · VERB

Etymology

From en- + girdle.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To encircle as if with a girdle.
   • 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. 1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 51:

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engird