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From: DICT.TW English-Chinese Dictionary 英漢字典

 girdling
 環割; 環切; 束腰

From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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