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girdlestead

noun
/ˈɡɜː(ɹ)dəlˌstɛd/

Etymology

From girdle + stead.

  1. inherited from *stéh₂tis✻
  2. inherited from *stadiz✻
  3. inherited from stede
  4. inherited from sted
  5. compounded as girdlestead — “girdle + stead”

Definitions

  1. That part of the body where the girdle is worn, i.e. the waist.

    • [D]iuide your ſelfe in two halfes, iuſt by the girdleſtead; […]
    • [T]he Lance his target tooke, / Which could not interrupt the blow, that through it cleerly ſtrooke, / And in his bellies rimme was ſheath’d, beneath his girdle-ſtead; […]
    • [T]hey have made me swell above the girdle-stead.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA