different between girdle vs zoneless

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /???dl?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????dl?/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English girdel, gerdel, gurdel, from Old English gyrdel, from Proto-Germanic *gurdilaz (“girdle, belt”), equivalent to gird +? -le. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Gäddel (“belt”), West Frisian gurdle, gurle, gurl (“belt”), Dutch gordel (“belt”), German Gürtel (“belt”), Yiddish ??????? (gartl, “belt”) (whence English gartel), Swedish gördel (“girdle”), Icelandic gyrðill (“girdle”).

Noun

girdle (plural girdles)

1. That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
2. 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.
3. The zodiac; also, the equator.
   • 1799, Thomas Campbell, Pleasures of Hope

     that gems the starry girdle of the year

   • 1782, William Cowper, Expostulation

     from the world's girdle to the frozen pole

   • under the girdle of the world

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

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Knight to this entry?)

5. (mining) A thin bed or stratum of stone.
6. The clitellum of an earthworm.
7. The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.

Translations

Derived terms

• notch girdle
• peel girdle

Verb

girdle (third-person singular simple present girdles, present participle girdling, simple past and past participle girdled)

1. (transitive) To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
2. (transitive) To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

girdle (plural girdles)

1. (Scotland, Northern English) Alternative form of griddle

References

Anagrams

• Gilder, gilder, girled, glider, gridle, regild, ridgel

English

Etymology

zone +? -less

Adjective

zoneless (not comparable)

1. Without zones; unzoned.
   • 1983, Robert Pollock, Soccer for Juniors, New York: Scribner, “Tactics,” p. 109,^[1]

     In this style of defense he is the one zoneless player, being able to cross into either of the zones as he is needed.

   • 1988, Aniko Varpalotai, “Ringette: The Sport for Girls,” Orbit, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Volume 19, No. 3, October 1988, p. 10,^[2]

     […] ringette players are agitating for zoneless play which would make the game faster and more demanding.

2. (literary, archaic) Without a belt or girdle.
   • 1749, William Mason, Isis: An Elegy, London: R. Dodsley, p. 7,^[3]

     Clos’d was her eye, and from her heaving breast

     In careless folds loose flow’d her zoneless vest;

   • 1785, William Cowper, The Task, London: J. Johnson, Book 3, p. 94,^[4]

     Thou art not known where pleasure is adored,

     That reeling goddess with the zoneless waist

     And wand’ring eyes, still leaning on the arm

     Of novelty, her fickle frail support;

3. (biology) Lacking bands or rings (particularly with reference to fungi).