girding

See also: girðing

English

Verb

girding

  1. present participle of gird

Noun

girding (plural girdings)

  1. A binding or encircling.
    • 1823, Charles Butler, A continuation of the Rev. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints to the Present Time, page 23:
      Bossuet thus beautifully addresses the Saviour of the world, when the girdings of his childhood were first untied […]

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