girdle

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

This theory has gained a lot of supportive evidence in the 150 years since both were proposed, but it cannot explain how the associated shoulder girdle evolved.

From Science Daily ● Nov. 1, 2023

Fast forward 100 million years, and fish called placoderms swam the seas, with jaws and a primitive “shoulder” or pectoral girdle supporting paired front fins.

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

As Kermit and I walked over, I looked at the girdle.

From Full of Beans by Jennifer L. Holm

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

“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

“They have these entire markets in girdles and beauty products.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 3, 2021

Midge has made me grateful that women are no longer expected to wear corsets and petticoats and girdles and all the gear.

From Salon ● Dec. 5, 2019

The girls grew up knowing nothing of girdles, and the boys announced their manhood by turning the bills of their caps backward.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

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

One night Gubar has an “accident” — her excrement-containing ostomy bag, girdled to her stomach, oozes with messy seepage.

From New York Times ● Dec. 28, 2018

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

From Slate ● Aug. 28, 2018

But to Nicole, the woman’s hair seemed girdled and anxious, like it was just waiting for the right moment to stage a coup.

From "Beauty Queens" by Libba Bray

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

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2023

I admired the sensuous materiality of the undulating brass-and-glass facade, the riverine expanse of white oak floor, the roughness of the pale brick girdling the auditorium.

From New York Times ● Jul. 23, 2022

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

They also squandered timber by girdling trees to clear land, cutting the bark around their trunks and later burning them.

From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018

A huge wave girdling it was advancing towards us relentlessly.

From "Life of Pi" by Yann Martel