To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
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 removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
The zodiac; also, the equator.
A thin bed or stratum of stone.
To separate the woody fibre from (flax, hemp, etc.) by beating; to swingle.
A bricklayer's small picklike tool with two cutting edges (or prongs) for dressing stone or cutting and trimming bricks.
The woody fibre of flax or hemp; the refuse of scutched flax or hemp.
A tuft or clump of grass.
A wooden implement shaped like a large knife used to separate the valuable fibres of flax or hemp by beating them and scraping from it the woody or coarse portions.