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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

That with which one is girded; a girdle.

Instead of a stomacher, a

girding

of sackcloth.

Is. iii. 24.

ppr.

Binding; surrounding; investing.

Noun.

A covering. Is.3.

See also: girðing

girding

girding ‎(plural girdings)

A binding or encircling.
- 1823, Charles Butler, A continuation of the Rev. Alban Butler's Lives of the Saints to the Present Time (page 23)
  Bossuet thus beautifully addresses the Saviour of the world, when the girdings of his childhood were first untied […]