All 3 Uses of
girth
in
The Fellowship of the Ring
- It was a merry journey with Tom Bombadil trotting gaily beside them, or before them, on Fatty Lumpkin, who could move much faster than his girth promised.†
Chpt 1.8 *
- Their great grey trunks were of mighty girth, but their height could not be guessed.†
Chpt 2.6
- He entered behind Haldir, and found that he was in a chamber of oval shape, in the midst of which grew the trunk of the great mallorn, now tapering towards its crown, and yet making still a pillar of wide girth.†
Chpt 2.7
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