girdle

Fossils were meticulously prepared to remove the surrounding matrix of rock and expose the skull, shoulder girdle and pectoral fins.

From Science Daily ● Apr. 5, 2024

If allowed to grow up the trunk of a tree, it can eventually girdle or smother and kill it.

From Seattle Times ● Jan. 3, 2024

Known placoderms have at most five gill arches, others having evolved into jaws and the hyoid, so the pectoral girdle derives from what was once the sixth gill arch, Brazeau’s team concludes.

From Science Magazine ● Nov. 1, 2023

Powerful magnetic and electric fields flowing from and through the tokamak will girdle and heat the plasma cloud so that the atoms inside will collide and fuse together, releasing immense amounts of energy.

From Scientific American ● Jun. 15, 2023

Above her brow her head was covered with a cap of silver lace netted with small gems, glittering white; but her soft grey raiment had no ornament save a girdle of leaves wrought in silver.

From "The Fellowship of the Ring" by J.R.R. Tolkien

Each bag is assigned to a player and contains everything that person wore under his uniform — compression shirts, girdles, tights, socks, skull caps.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 18, 2024

RIGA, Latvia — Russian volunteers are crafting girdles from dog hair to help keep the soldiers fighting against Ukraine warm.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 19, 2022

In most fish, the muscles of paired fins attach to girdles within the body, allowing for some control of locomotion.

From Textbooks ● Jun. 9, 2022

“So girls started wearing corsets, girdles and brassieres over their clothes, and this then led to the trend for underwear as outerwear.”

From New York Times ● Dec. 15, 2021

Gem- stones glittered on the fingers of the lords and the girdles and hairnets of the ladies.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

As long as a tree is not girdled — cut entirely around its circumference, severing all the vascular tissue — it will continue to live.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 12, 2023

Temujin girdled his sworn friend Jamukha with the golden belt taken as loot from Toqto’a of the Merkit.

From Textbooks ● Apr. 19, 2023

Individual ash can also be girdled to make a so-called trap tree: the bark is removed all the way around the trunk, drawing borers in the vicinity with the promise of exposed sapwood.

From The Verge ● Nov. 25, 2019

Undesirable tree species and invasive vegetation were carefully managed, meaning they were cut, girdled, or treated with herbicide.

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2018

A necklace, its square blue sapphires girdled by glittering diamonds coated in dust, except where a few fingerprints allowed the light to strike through.

From "The Reader" by Traci Chee

It takes precision to harness so much abundance; raising the house to save the sibipiruna, for instance, meant inserting tiers in the terrain to avoid girdling the roots of pre-existing loquats and phoenix palms.

From New York Times ● Mar. 22, 2024

They created small or large canopy gaps around the trees by either felling or girdling the competing trees.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2023

Sprinklers sent arcs of water onto the rich, green swales girdling the townhouse and condo developments.

From Washington Post ● Oct. 11, 2021

Crews have employed a number of tactics, including felling trees with chain saws, girdling their trunks with a blade and spraying the wound with a systemic herbicide.

From Seattle Times ● Sep. 17, 2018

A huge wave girdling it was advancing towards us relentlessly.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel