Gir″dle, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Girdled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Girdling (?).] 1. To bind with a belt or sash; to gird. Shak.
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.