The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
The clitellum of an earthworm.
The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
A garment used to hold the abdomen, hips, buttocks, and/or thighs in a particular shape.
That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
A belt or sash at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
The zodiac; also, the equator.
A thin bed or stratum of stone.
To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
A notch cut into a branch so that it can be bent when pleaching is carried out.
An act or result of interweaving; specifically, (horticulture) a hedge or lattice created by interweaving the branches of shrubs, trees, etc.
A branch of a shrub, tree, etc., used for pleaching; a pleacher.
To unite by interweaving, as (horticulture) branches of shrubs, trees, etc., to create a hedge; to interlock, to plash.