All 4 Uses of
girth
in
The Return of the King
- Leading the line there came walking a big thick-limbed horse, and on it sat a man of wide shoulders and huge girth, but old and grey-bearded, yet mail-clad and black-helmed and bearing a long heavy spear.†
Chpt 5.1
- A young man, Merry thought as he returned the glance, less in height and girth than most.†
Chpt 5.3
- Already the companies were preparing to start: men were tightening girths, looking to saddles, caressing their horses; some gazed uneasily at the lowering sky.†
Chpt 5.3 *
- Thence, turning and encircling all its wide girth from south to north, it climbed at last, high in the upper cone, but still far from the reeking summit, to a dark entrance that gazed back east straight to the Window of the Eye in Sauron's shadow-mantled fortress.†
Chpt 6.3
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