Girth \Girth\ (g[~e]rth), n. [Icel. gj["o]r[eth] girdle, or ger[eth] girth; akin to Goth. ga['i]rda girdle. See {Gird} to girt, and cf. {Girdle}, n.] 1. A band or strap which encircles the body; especially, one by which a saddle is fastened upon the back of a horse.
2. The measure round the body, as at the waist or belly; the circumference of anything.
He's a lu sty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth. --Addison.
3. A small horizontal brace or girder.
Girth \Girth\, v. t. [From {Girth}, n., cf. {Girt}, v. t.] To bind as with a girth. [R.] --Johnson.
Since then, the 4-foot Grunt and his girth have appeared in newspapers and on television, prompting about 300 calls from Californians wanting to give the 3-year-old porker a home.
Above all, this refers to Donald Maxwell's Falstaff, who glories in his girth with animal spirits even more untamed than five years ago; but it also concerns the sheer 'go' of WNO's female quartet.
The letter quoted the patrol officer who stopped her as saying her girth made it impossible for her to sit directly behind the steering wheel.
I envisage about 400, some of 90lb, 20lb greater than the one landed from the Thames in April 1789, which had a girth of 36in and was sold for a shilling a pound.
Indeed, the wealthy client of a prominent local guide fell to his death there a few weeks ago. The two of us were now teetering on the brink while he struggled to get the rope round my girth without either of us falling.
What's startling is its huge girth and wide pectoral fins.
Mr. Myerson, a gregarious 50-year-old with ample girth and ambition to match, announced plans last year to build in a year the kind of elite law firm that has traditionally taken decades to mold.
Others wish to have their growing girth ignored and view any remarks as a slight on their professionalism. You have to feel sorry for men who are trying to deal with the situation sensitively.