girth

About 0.64 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place.
2. noun The part of an animal around which the girth fits.
3. noun One's waistline circumference, most often a large one.
4. noun A small horizontal brace or girder.
5. noun The distance measured around an object; the circumference.
6. noun The length of the shortest cycle in a graph.
7. verb To bind as if with a girth or band.

Similar words

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Often followed by

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Word family

girthed girthing girths