Girdled

If St. Michael had stepped down from a church window, leaving the dragon slain, he would have looked no otherwise than she, all gleaming with steel, and with grey eyes full of promise of victory: the holy sword girdled about her, and a little battle-axe hanging from her saddle-girth. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)

It is found, however, that some of these "girdled" trees are especially attractive to several species of ambrosia beetles (Figs. 22 and 23), round-headed borers (Fig. 24) and timber worms ❋ Unknown (N/A)

(Fig. 25), which cause serious injury to the sapwood or heartwood, while other trees "girdled" at a different time or season are not injured. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

In the past, gum, having no marketable value, has been left standing after logging operations, or, where the land has been cleared for farming, the trees have been "girdled" and allowed to rot, and then felled and burned as trash. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

To determine and utilize the proper months or seasons to girdle or fell different kinds of trees: Bald cypress in the swamps of the South are "girdled" in order that they may die, and in a few weeks or months dry out and become light enough to float. ❋ Unknown (N/A)

By means of his sharp hunting-knife he "girdled" this tree near the ground, and then higher up, so that the length between the two ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

By means of his sharp hunting-knife he "girdled" this tree near the ground, and then higher up, so that the length between the two "girdlings," or circular cuttings, was about four feet. ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

He had 'girdled' the trees for an acre or two around, preparatory to clearing ❋ Washington Irving (1821)

Tania Schoennagel, a research scientist in the geography department and a member of Veblen's lab, notes an experiment in which a stand of trees was "girdled," or chain-sawed around the perimeter to cut off the trees 'circulation (and ultimately simulate pine-beetle kill). ❋ Unknown (2009)

Oppression based on sexual orientation also received recent attention in the NY Times, but girdled by a glimmer of hope in this instance. ❋ M.D. David Katz (2011)

The west is the last land to be tamed, shrugging off the trappings of civilization until bound with barbed wire and girdled by railroads carting in Easterners with their laws and fancy hats and buffalo rifles that felled gazelle and bison alike. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Her face powdered, her hips girdled, her thinning hair bolstered, she would board the six-thirty bus to arrive at her downtown office before anyone else. ❋ Jack Cashill (2011)

And when I stood before them, and their faces turned to me, expectantly, "So twice five miles of fertile ground/With walls and towers were girdled round:/And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,/Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree. . ." and everything thereafter went slap out of my head. ❋ Elizabeth Boleman-Herring (2012)

What was the difference, he asked himself, between the shameless, grass-girdled hula dances and the decollete dances of the women of his own race? ❋ Unknown (2010)

A delicate rime of ice girdled the shore; it cracked as we pushed long dugout canoes into the water. ❋ W. Michael Gear (2011)