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en·gir·dle

(ĕn-gûr′dl)
tr.v. en·gir·dled, en·gir·dling, en·gir·dles
To encircle or surround with or as if with a girdle.
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en•gir•dle

(ɛnˈgɜr dl)

v.t. -dled, -dling.
to engird.
[1595–1605]
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engirdle

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To encircle with or as if with a band:
Archaic: engird.
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The village of Marlott lay amid the north-eastern undulations of the beautiful Vale of Blakemore or Blackmoor aforesaid, and engirdled and secluded region, for the most part untrodden as yet by tourist or landscape-painter, though within a four hours' journey from London.
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We moved our hands, for example, when we were dwellers on the earth, and, in so doing, we gave vibration to the atmosphere which engirdled it.
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