Meaning

• That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference

• A belt or elasticated corset; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.

• The zodiac; also, the equator.

• The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.

• A thin bed or stratum of stone.

• The clitellum of an earthworm.

• The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.

Meaning

• To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.

• To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.