Girdled is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for GIRDLED in dictionary:

VERB:
• GIRDLE, to encircle with a belt
• encircle (the body) with a girdle
• surround; encircle
• cut through the bark all the way round (a tree or branch), typically in order to kill it
NOUN:
• a belt or cord worn round the waist
• a thing that encircles something like a girdle
• either of two sets of bones encircling the body, to which the limbs are attached.
• the part of a cut gem dividing the crown from the base and embraced by the setting.
• a ring made around a tree by removing bark.
• a woman's elasticated corset extending from waist to thigh

Words related to GIRDLED

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Words that contain GIRDLED

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How to use GIRDLED in a sentence

• About two hundred feet above the water the glen of a little stream shaped itself into a flat cup, which was invisible from below, and girdled on three sides by dark forest.
• He had taken off his jacket, and was clad from top to toe in white, save for that streak of scarlet which tightly girdled his waist.
• When I opened my belated eyes, the tall peaks on the opposite side of the glen were girdled below their waists with the flood of a sparkling sunrise.
• The base of Sultan Dagh was girdled with groves of fruit-trees, stretching out in long lines on the plain, with fields of ripening wheat between.
• Another pair of blows extends the gash, and when twenty such have fallen, behold a girdled tree.
• The camp was on a fair plain, girdled with hills, spacious, well-kept apparently, but did not present any peculiar attraction for us.
• Though they at first girdled and burnt the standing timber, to clear the land, later they tilled it as carefully as any farmer of the seaboard States.
• Charred stumps stood thickly in the clearings, with here and there a large tree girdled by the axe and left to decay.
• Stratford and the valley of the Avon lay spread before them like a picture of peace, studded with blossoming orchards and girdled with spring.
• The immense hosts of the Mohammedans now girdled the city in a semicircle on the land side.
• One, in especial, called the Palatine Hill, rose separately, with a flat top and steep sides, about four hundred yards from the river, and girdled in by the other six.
• Far away stretched the old oaks that girdled Macon with greenery, where Sidney Lanier and his brother Clifford used to spend their schoolboy Saturdays among the birds and rabbits.
• The house stood in a tiny little valley, a little basin in the rocks, girdled about on all sides with low craggy heights covered with evergreens.
• By the month of April, Orleans was girdled by a chain of fortresses, from which the cannonade was incessant.
• It seemed, almost, as though a hungry wolf-pack girdled her, ready to drag her down.
• Your words touch me but little now, as the tree, when the axe has once girdled it, has no feeling for any further stroke.
• A line of twenty fortresses now girdled the English frontier, from Colchester, through Bedford and Nottingham, to Manchester and Chester.
• Separating the current, which girdled it with a sparkling belt, was the dark blue of an island, thick plumed with trees, a black and mysterious oblong.
• Her restless sensibility, girdled by fixed principle, gives us the picture of a sea of fire breaking on a shore of frost.
• The summit was reached, and the men went in, with a run, at the work, only to find the redoubt girdled by a wide ditch thirty feet deep.
• They turned to walk along the terrace-front of the Casino, facing toward Italy, and away from the harbour half girdled by the Rock of Hercules.
• She stepped rapidly through the expanse of it that girdled the forest, and hurried on through the firs to the cottage.
• The most restricted part near the middle is girdled by a ridge or ring, on the circumference of which seventy or eighty shallow notches have been cut.
• It was girdled by a belt of clear water, with four stone bridges and a double wall on which stood a goodly company of noble gentlemen.
• A very beautiful sheet of water, not very small either, with broken shores, lay girdled, round with the unbroken forest.
• The trees were girdled, and the brush cut down and burned, preparatory to ploughing the field.
• The bold, round, flat-topped height of Musbury Tor stood gloomily proud, on the opposite side, girdled off from the rest of the hills by a green vale.
• Only the strange bulk of the mountain, a sharp black pyramid girdled and crowned with fire, loomed across the night-a mountain once seen never to be forgotten.
• Like a supernatural being which has girdled the earth in a second, it seemed that I stood before Reverdy and Sarah and their children.
• The two were entirely alone in the fairy dell, and the trees which girdled it were glorious with vivid autumnal tints.

Similar words containing GIRDL without suffix ed

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