Definitions for girths

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girths girth

Spelling: [gurth]

IPA: /gɜrθ/

Girths is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 97 anagrams from letters in girths (ghirst).

Definitions for girths

noun

1. the measure around anything; circumference.
2. a band that passes underneath a horse or other animal to hold a saddle in place, especially one having a buckle at each end for fastening to straps running from under the flaps of the saddle.
3. something that encircles; a band or girdle.

verb (used with object)

1. to bind or fasten with a girth.
2. to girdle; encircle.

Origin of girths

1300-50; Middle English girth, gerth Old Norse gerth girdle; akin to gird¹

Examples for girths

It was a tree that might have had some twelve feet of girth.

The couch is too deep, and he is growing heavier; he will be Buddha-like in girth at some point soon.

Those he measured were only twenty-one feet long, and two feet in girth.

Mark Spiegler waddles, shifting his girth from one foot to the other, swaying slightly side to side.

Let me but get my girth tightened and we may soon be out of danger's way.'

The saddle was black with long skirts, an' it had only one girth.

Fairly or not, many people see that kind of amplitude of girth as a sign of irresponsibility or lack of discipline or something.

Frida is a colossal woman, in girth and stature, and she becomes the dark star at the center of this disconcerting debut.

First came Kevin Smith, who was not allowed to board a Southwest Airlines flight because of his girth.

He had the girth of an earth in him and had to do something with it.