different between girth vs perambulation

English

Etymology

From Middle English girth, gerth, gyrth, from Old Norse gj?rð, from Proto-Germanic *gerd?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?erd?- (“to encircle, enclose; belt”). Cognate with Gothic ???????????????????????? (gairda), Icelandic gjörð. Also related to German Gurt, English gird, Albanian ngërthej (“to tie, bind, fasten”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /????/
• (US) IPA^(key): /???/
• Rhymes: -??(?)?

Noun

girth (countable and uncountable, plural girths)

1. A band passed under the belly of an animal, which holds a saddle or a harness saddle in place.
2. The part of an animal around which the girth fits.
3. (informal) One's waistline circumference, most often a large one.
   • Addison

     He's a lusty, jolly fellow, that lives well, at least three yards in the girth.

4. A small horizontal brace or girder.
5. The distance measured around an object.
6. (graph theory) The length of the shortest cycle in a graph.

Synonyms

• circumference
• cinch

Derived terms

• girthen
• girthful
• girthless
• girthly
• girthsome
• girthy

Translations

Verb

girth (third-person singular simple present girths, present participle girthing, simple past and past participle girthed)

1. To bind as if with a girth or band.

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

Anagrams

• grith, right

English

Etymology

perambulate +? -ion; alternative surface analysis is per- +? ambulation.

Noun

perambulation (countable and uncountable, plural perambulations)

1. (rare) A survey, a tour; a walking around.
   • 1700, Tom Brown, Amusements Serious and Comical, calculated for the Meridian of London, page 10:

     If any Man for that rea?on has an Inclination to divert him?elf, and Sail with me round the Globe, to ?upervi?e almo?t all the Conditions of Humane Life, without being infected with the Vanities, and Vices that attend such a Whim?ical Perambulation; let him follow me, who am going to Relate it in a Stile, and Language, proper to the Variety of the Subject: For as the Caprichio came Naturally into my Pericranium, I am re?olv’d to pur?ue it through Thick and Thin, to enlarge my Capacity for a Man of Bu?ine?s.

2. (law) An English legal ceremony in which an official from a town or parish walks around it to delineate and record its boundaries.
3. The district thus inspected.

Quotations

• 1902: Transactions of the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, published by the Lancashire and Cheshire Antiquarian Society

  Another forest not named in the perambulation is that of Horwich.

• 1929: Proceedings of the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society, published by the Dorset Natural History and Archaeological Society

  The earliest known reference to the stone is that in the perambulation of the parish of Puddletown recorded in the Cartulary of Christchurch Priory.

Synonyms

• (English legal ceremony) bannering

References

• Radin Law Dictionary, Max Radin; Oceana Publications, 1970.

Anagrams

• preambulation