Girth

Definition: Girth

Girth

Noun

1. The distance around a person's body.

2. Stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place.

Verb

1. Encircle or bind; "Trees girded the green fields".

2. Tie a cinch around; "cinch horses".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "girth" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references)

Mining

Sports & Leisure

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Synonyms: Girth

Connection

Fastener, fastening, tie; ligament, ligature; strap; tackle, rigging; standing rigging, running rigging; traces, harness; yoke; band ribband, bandage; brace, roller, fillet; inkle; with, withe, withy; thong, braid; girder, tiebeam; girth, girdle, cestus, garter, halter, noose, lasso, surcingle, knot, running knot; cabestro, cinch, lariat, legadero, oxreim; suspenders.

Outline

Zone, belt, girth, band, baldric, zodiac, girdle, tyre, cingle, clasp, girt; cordon; (inclosure); circlet,.

Crosswords: Girth

I was probing to determine skeletal girth and muscle tone (Spies Like Us; writing credit: Dan Aykroyd, Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel)

So that all Asparagus would grow to the same girth and length, (Mephisto and Kevin; performing artist: Primus)

The Saddle Girth (1917)

Girth of a Nation (1994)

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Books

• Experimental Stress Analysis of Pipeline Girth Welds (reference)

• Sizing of Girth Weld Defects Using Focused Ultrasonic Beams, Phases I and II (reference)

• Small and Full Scale Fracture of Thick Section Girth Weldments (reference)

• The Effect of Misalignment on the Fracture Behaviour of Girth Welds (reference)

• The Effect of Stress Relief Due to Hydrostatic Testing on Girth Weld Failure (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Girth (reference)

• Swan Girth (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Expressions using "girth": derrick girth ♦ Fore girth ♦ girth rail ♦ quarter girth measure ♦ saddle girth. Additional references.

Beginning with "girth": girth-shy.

Ending with "girth": saddle-girth.

Albanian

rreth (around, brim, by, circa, circle, circlet, circuit, compass, concerning, coterie, disc, district, gabion, gyre, periphery, range, region, rim, ring, rondure, round, somewhere, union), qingël, nënbarkëz. (various references)

Arabic 

‏مقاس (metre, size, standard), ‏حزام (band, belly-band, belt, girdle, sash, strap, waistband, webbing, zone), ‏حجم (bulk, dimension, extent, flinch, format, funk, gage, magnitude, measure, measurement, proportion, refrain, size, volume). (various references)

Bulgarian 

обиколка (ambit, circuit, leg, round, round trip, roundabout, swing, tour, touring, turn, walk about), подпруга (saddle-girth, surcingle), дебелина (avoirdupois, corpulence, fat, fatness, obesity, thickness, width). (various references)

Chinese 

肚带 (Cinch). (various references)

Czech

popruh (belt, strap), objem kolem pasu. (various references)

Danish

vandkappegjord (belly band, belly belt, belly girth), taljevidde (waist girth, waist width), stramme gjorden (to pull up the girth, to tighten the girth), stiver på boretårn (derrick girt, derrick girth), minimal benvidde (minimal leg girth), Hoppus raatraeopmaalingssystem (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure), hoftevidde (hip girth, seat girth), håndledsvidde (wrist girth), bustevidde (bust girth), ankelvidde (ankle girth), ærmegab-vidde (arm scye girth). (various references)

Dutch

gordel bijstellen (to pull up the girth, to tighten the girth), gordel aantrekken (to pull up the girth, to tighten the girth), singel (boulevard, zone), rondom klamp (girth-wise cleat), Hoppus-maat (Haakon Dahl measure, Hoppus measure, quarter girt measure, quarter girth measure), enkelwijdte (ankle girth), boortorenspant (derrick girt, derrick girth). (various references)

Farsi 

محیط (Circumference, Comprehensive, Entourage, Environment, Lap, Milieu, Outside, Perimeter, Periphery, Sphere), قطرشکم , تنگ اسب , تنگ بستن , ابعاد (Dimension), دورگرفتن (Embed, Encircle, Encompass), بست اهنی وچرمی , بست (Outrigger, Spanner), باتنگ بستن . (various references)

Finnish

satulavyö. (various references)

French

circonférence. (various references)

German

gurt (belt, girder, girdle, strap), Körperumfang. (various references)

Greek 

ύγγλα (surcingle), βάζω ζώνη στήριξησ σέλασ, μετρώ το μέγεθοσ, περιφέρεια (borough, circuit, circumference, compass, contour, district, perimeter, periphery, precinct), ζώνω (belt, gird, girdle), ζώνη εφίππιου. (various references)

Hebrew 

ח�'ור�" (belt, girdle), �"קף (circuit, circumference, compass, extent, periphery, range, scope, sphere, sweep). (various references)

Hungarian

körméret (circuit, circumference), heveder (band, belt, belting, bracer, cartridge belt, chafing-mat, harness, sling, strap), övgerenda. (various references)

Indonesian

ukuran keliling. (various references)

Italian

circonferenza (circumference). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

胴回り (measurement around waist, waist), 周回 (circumference, surroundings). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

しゅうかい (assembly, circumference, cluster, mass, meeting, personal reformation, surroundings), どうまわり (measurement around waist, waist). (various references)

Korean 

둘� �. (various references)

Manx

tarragh (bell-band, surcingle), chymbyllaght (environment, surroundings). (various references)

Pig Latin

irthgay.(various references)

Portuguese

periferia (circuit, compasses, outskirts, periphery, suburb), perímetro (circumference, compasses, perimeter), pôr cilha, medir o perímetro, medir a cintura, contorno (contour, cutout, dide view, lay, lineament, outline, profile, shape), circunferência (circle, circuit, circumference, compasses, perimeter, round), cinturão (baldric, belt, body-belt, girdle, sash, waist belt), cilhar, cilha (cinch), apertar com cilha. (various references)

Romanian

mãsura în circumferinţã (gird), circumferinţã (boundaries, circle, circumference, perimeter, round), chingã (strap, thong), brâu (band, belt, cincture, girdle, list, streak, strip, waist, waistband, zone), avea o anumitã grosime, avea o anumitã circumferinţã, înconjur (detour, turn), închinga. (various references)

Russian 

обхват. (various references)

Scottish

crios (a belt, belt, girdle). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

obim (ambit, amplitude, bulk, circumference, extent, latitude, parameter, perimeter, scope, volume). (various references)

Spanish

circunferencia (circumference). (various references)

Swedish

sadelgjord (cinch, saddle-girth), omkrets (circuit, circumference, circumscription, compass, perimeter, periphery), gördel (belt, cincture, girdle, zone). (various references)

Thai

สายรั�", การวั�"รอบเอว. (various references)

Turkish

kuşatmak (begird, beleaguer, beset, besiege, blockade, bottle up, cincture, circle, compass, embosom, encircle, enclose, encompass, engird, engirdle, envelop, environ, equip, gird, girdle, Girt, hedge in, hedge round, hem about, hem around, hem in, inclose, invest, lay siege to, ring, shut in, surround, zone), kolanla sıkıştırmak, kolan (Girt), eyerlemek (saddle), daire çevresi (circuit, circumference), bel ölçüsü (waistline), çevresini ölçmek, çevre (adjacencies, ambiance, ambience, ambient, ambit, atmosphere, circle, circumference, climate, compass, contour, domain, ecological, entourage, environment, environmental, milieu, neighborhood, neighbourhood, perimeter, periphery, precinct, precincts, premises, purlieus, radius, region, society, sphere, surroundings, vicinity), çember (bail, basket, circle, circuit, circumference, hoop, ring, round). (various references)

Turkmen 

semizlik (fatness, obesity). (various references)

Ukrainian

оточувати (bank, beleaguer, beset, besiege, box, circle, compass, cordon, embosom, embrace, encircle, enclose, encompass, enlace, environ, gird, girdle, hang about, hem about, hem in, inclose, mob, palisade, ring, skirt, surround, zone), обхват, підтягати попругу, пояс (cincture, cummerbund, girdle, sash, waist belt, waistband, zone), попруга (belly-band, cinch, surcingle). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chu vi (circuit). (various references)

Welsh

praffter (stoutness, thickness), cenglu (hank, wind), cengl (band, hank). (various references)

cingulum, fascia. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "girth": girthed, girthing, girths. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Girth" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: dirth, Garah, Garith, gart, garth, gath, gearth, gert, Gertcha, gerth, gerty, Ghidrah, girdth, girit, girsh, girta, girte, girts, girty, gointuh, grath, grithy, Gruthu, gurt, gurth, guth, Gytha, irth, Sgairbh. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: grith, right.

-1 letter: girt, grit, thir, trig.

-2 letters: ghi, git, hit, rig.

-3 letters: hi, it, ti.

+1 letter: aright, bright, fright, girths, griths, righto, rights, righty, wright.

+2 letters: alright, brights, fighter, freight, frights, girthed, hurting, lighter, refight, relight, resight, righted, righter, rightly, sighter, spright, tighter, tigrish, tughrik, upright, wrights.

+3 letters: affright, airthing, airtight, berthing, birthing, blighter, brighten, brighter, brightly, charting, earthing, farthing, fighters, freights, frighted, frighten, frothing, ghostier, girthing, graphite, hearting, heritage, hurtling, ingather, ingrowth, lighters, litharge, mightier, nightjar, northing, outright, plighter, prefight, refights, regolith, relights, resights, retching, righters, rightest, rightful, righties, righting, rightism, rightist, shirting, shorting, sighters, slighter, sprights, straight, theurgic, thirlage, thirling, thorning, thrawing, thriving, throning, throwing, tigerish, torching, trashing, triglyph, trigraph, trithing, trothing, tughriks, unbright, uprights, weighter, worthing, wrathing, writhing.