All 4 Uses of
girth
in
War and Peace
- It was an enormous tree, its girth twice as great as a man could embrace, and evidently long ago some of its branches had been broken off and its bark scarred.†
Chpt 6 *
- The Cossacks were untying their horses and tightening their saddle girths.†
Chpt 14
- The men rapidly picked out their horses in the semidarkness, tightened their saddle girths, and formed companies.†
Chpt 14
- Denisov was angry with the Cossack because the saddle girths were too slack, reproved him, and mounted.†
Chpt 14
Definition:
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(girth) the distance around something such as a body or a tree
or:
a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place