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Girdle :: Girdle (v. t.) To bind with a belt or sash; to gird.

Summer :: Summer (n.) A large stone or beam placed horizontally on columns, piers, posts, or the like, serving for various uses. Specifically: (a) The lintel of a door or window. (b) The commencement of a cross vault. (c) A central floor timber, as a girder, or a piece reaching from a wall to a girder. Called also summertree..

Cest :: Cest (n.) A woman's girdle; a cestus.

Deflection :: Deflection (n.) The bending which a beam or girder undergoes from its own weight or by reason of a load.

Unzoned :: Unzoned (a.) Not zoned; not bound with a girdle; as, an unzoned bosom..

Postclavicle :: Postclavicle (n.) A bone in the pectoral girdle of many fishes projecting backward from the clavicle.

Bolster :: Bolster (n.) A plate of iron or a mass of wood under the end of a bridge girder, to keep the girder from resting directly on the abutment..

Belt :: Belt (n.) That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt..

Precoracoid :: Precoracoid (n.) The anterior part of the coracoid (often closely united with the clavicle) in the shoulder girdle of many reptiles and amphibians.

Coracoid :: Coracoid (a.) Pertaining to a bone of the shoulder girdle in most birds, reptiles, and amphibians, which is reduced to a process of the scapula in most mammals..

Cestus :: Cestus (n.) A genus of Ctenophora. The typical species (Cestus Veneris) is remarkable for its brilliant iridescent colors, and its long, girdlelike form..

Succinct :: Succinct (a.) Girded or tucked up; bound; drawn tightly together.

Girder :: Girder (n.) One who girds; a satirist.

Waist :: Waist (n.) A girdle or belt for the waist.

Gird :: Gird (v. i.) To gibe; to sneer; to break a scornful jest; to utter severe sarcasms.

Crossbeam :: Crossbeam (n.) A girder.

Girding :: Girding (n.) That with which one is girded; a girdle.

Girdle :: Girdle (n.) That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus..

Girder :: Girder (n.) One who, or that which, girds..

Gird :: Gird (v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to equip; as, to gird one's self for a contest..

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