All 3 Uses of
girth
in
The Two Towers
- At first Merry and Pippin were struck chiefly by the variety that they saw: the many shapes, and colours, the differences in girth; and height, and length of leg and arm; and in the number of toes and fingers (anything from three to nine).†
Chpt 3.4 *
- Fear and wonder, maybe, enlarged him in the hobbit's eyes, but the Mumak of Harad was indeed a beast of vast bulk, and the like of him does not walk now in Middle-earth; his kin that live still in latter days are but memories of his girth and majesty.†
Chpt 4.4
- Great ilexes of huge girth stood dark and solemn in wide glades with here and there among them hoary ash-trees. and giant oaks just putting out their brown-green buds.†
Chpt 4.7
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