GIRDLE (3)

Gir″dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Girdled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Girdling (?).] 1. 1. To bind with a belt or sash; to gird. Shak.
2. 2. To inclose; to environ; to shut in.
Those sleeping stones, That as a waist doth girdle you about. Shak. 3. 3. To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.) through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it.