Associations to the word «Girth»

Wiktionary

GIRTH, noun. The distance measured around an object.
GIRTH, noun. A band passed under the belly of an animal to hold various types of saddles in place.
GIRTH, noun. The part of an animal around which the girth fits.
GIRTH, noun. (informal) One's waistline circumference, most often a large one.
GIRTH, noun. A small horizontal brace or girder.
GIRTH, noun. (graph theory) The length of the shortest cycle in a graph.
GIRTH, verb. To bind as if with a girth or band.

Dictionary definition

GIRTH, noun. The distance around a person's body.
GIRTH, noun. Stable gear consisting of a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place.
GIRTH, verb. Tie a cinch around; "cinch horses".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope