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Definition of Engirdle
1. v. t. To surround as with a girdle; to girdle.
Definition of Engirdle
1. Verb. To encircle as if with a girdle. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Engirdle
1. to engird [v -DLED, -DLING, -DLES] - See also: engird
Lexicographical Neighbors of Engirdle
Literary usage of Engirdle
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Annual Report by Fairmount Park Art Association (1903)
"... and upon which very admirable work has been done by another association, is
a plan for a systematic arrangement of parkways that will engirdle our city. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1865)
"... pall shall engirdle the world, As In life did the voice o(my fame; And each
mutinous billow that skyward curled, Shall, to fancy, re-echo my name. a ..."
3. The Poetic and Dramatic Works of Alfred, Lord Tennyson by Walter Scott, William James Rolfe (1898)
"See since that Seaman's epicycle sprite engirdle, lure and goad him to the chase
Along drear leagues of crimson spotting white With mother's tears of France ..."
4. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1889)
"... curve of a python's body, and you get a motion such as would, in its sum total,
be sufficient to engirdle a luckless anatomist several times over. ..."
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