Definitions for engirdles

engirdles en·gir·dle

Spelling: [en-gur-dl]
IPA: /ɛnˈgɜr dl/

Engirdles is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 541 anagrams from letters in engirdles (deegilnrs).

Definitions for engirdles

verb (used with object)

  1. to engird.

Origin of engirdles

First recorded in 1595-1605; en-1 + girdle

Examples for engirdles

If you choose, plant the foot of the ladder in a fiery test and engirdle each round with a forest of thorns.

If it is left till then, one can only engirdle the whole thing with a soft tarred rope and sling it up somehow or anyhow.

Why engirdle its waist in warmth and cordage, and expose its feet to every storm and frost, to mud and snow?

Then I beheld, spread out before me, the greater part of Greece, together with the countless islands that engirdle it.

Word Value for engirdles
Scrable

10

Words with friends

13

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