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noun

Girth n.

A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.

The measure around any object, such as a body at the waist or belly, or a box; the circumference of anything; as, in order to be acceptable for mailing, the total of height and girth of a package must not exceed 63 inches. "He's a lusty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth."

A small horizontal brace or girder.

verb

Girth v. t. To bind as with a girth. (R.)

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Etymology of 'Girth'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Girth" Quotes from Famous Books

... will be but vain, Beauty reckoned of no worth: There a very little girth Can hold round what once the earth Seemed too ...

— Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and Other Poems • Christina Rossetti

... by thee from the royal Yudhishthira by force of intellect alone. O slayer of hostile heroes, all the kings of the earth now living in subjection to thee, await thy commands, as they did before under Yudhishthira, awaiting his. O monarch, the goddess Earth with her boundless extent with girth of seas, with her mountains and forests, and towns and cities and mines, and decked with woodlands and hills is now thine! Adored by the Brahmanas and worshipped by the kings, thou blazest forth, O king, in consequence of thy prowess, like the Sun among the gods in heaven! Surrounded ...

— The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa Bk. 3 Pt. 2 • Translated by Kisari Mohan Ganguli

... thickly padded over a small-boned body distinguishes the pure Alimentive type. In men of this type the largest part of the body is around the girth; in women it is around the hips. These always indicate a large nutritive system in good working order. Fat is only surplus tissue—the amount manufactured by the assimilative system over and above the ...

— How to Analyze People on Sight - Through the Science of Human Analysis: The Five Human Types • Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict

... been, O'Neil's greatest surprise came a moment later as he passed the first of the company buildings. There he heard his name pronounced in a voice which halted him, and in an open doorway he beheld a huge, loose- hung man of tremendous girth, with a war-bag in his hand and a wide black hat thrust back from ...

— The Iron Trail • Rex Beach

... went to work at the canoe, and waited till he should turn to me. When he did it was with a child's plea for pity, and the abjectness of his tone was horrible, coming from a man of his girth and power. ...

— Montlivet • Alice Prescott Smith

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