birthing

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This is the primeval forest: endless miles of enormous timber-trees, girthing ten feet, twenty feet, thirty feet, forty feet, and even more, and of startling height.

From Brighter Britain! (Volume 1 of 2) or Settler and Maori in Northern New Zealand by Hay, William Delisle

Looking out over the pillow of my cot I saw Ted among the trees, girthing the pack-saddle on Jerry.

From The Record of Nicholas Freydon An Autobiography by Dawson, A. J. (Alec John)

For a moment she could not see Cecil, then, peering into Betty's stall, she made him out, busily girthing up.

From Mates at Billabong by Bruce, Mary Grant

The harness consisted mostly of ropes or girthing with loops at the ends, and having cleets like the modern ‘coo-tee’ to hold them in position.

From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Scott, Daniel

In girthing a tree that he sells in the round, He assumes, as a rule, that the body is sound, And measures, forgetting to bark it!

From The Poems of Henry Kendall With Biographical Note by Bertram Stevens by Kendall, Henry