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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats