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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The act of binding, confining, or retaining with a girdle: usually with up.
  • noun The use or office of a girdle in retaining garments; also, something girded on.
  • Gibing; taunting; sarcastic.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun That with which one is girded; a girdle.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Present participle of gird.

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