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Synonyms for girth


Grammar : Noun
Spell : gurth
Phonetic Transcription : gɜrθ



Définition of girth

Origin :
  • c.1300, "belt around a horse's body," from Old Norse gjorð "girdle, belt, hoop," from Proto-Germanic *gertu- (cf Gothic gairda "girdle"), from the same source as gird. Sense of "measurement around an object" first recorded 1640s.
  • noun measurement around the waist
  • noun a band
Example sentences :
  • Let me but get my girth tightened and we may soon be out of danger's way.'
  • Extract from : « Micah Clarke » by Arthur Conan Doyle
  • It was a tree that might have had some twelve feet of girth.
  • Extract from : « Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) » by William Delisle Hay
  • The saddle was black with long skirts, an' it had only one girth.
  • Extract from : « Dwellers in the Hills » by Melville Davisson Post
  • He had the girth of an earth in him and had to do something with it.
  • Extract from : « The Voice of the Machines » by Gerald Stanley Lee
  • Those he measured were only twenty-one feet long, and two feet in girth.
  • Extract from : « The Western World » by W.H.G. Kingston
  • It equals the big man with the little; it fills me to the giant's girth and inches.
  • Extract from : « The God of Love » by Justin Huntly McCarthy
  • A boy of his age and girth could not carry much, I should say.
  • Extract from : « Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 » by Various
  • The girth should be made broad, of a soft and elastic material.
  • Extract from : « The Prairie Traveler » by Randolph Marcy
  • "Getting fat," he grunted, as he noticed the increasing heaviness at his girth.
  • Extract from : « The Promise » by James B. Hendryx
  • Then the soldier said: "Come and cut my horse a girth, or I will cut your head off!"
  • Extract from : « Italian Popular Tales » by Thomas Frederick Crane

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