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Definition
the distance around something such as a body or a treeor:
a band around a horse's belly that holds the saddle in place
- measure abdominal girth
- stopped to tighten a slipping saddle girth
- horse has a 76 inch girth
- Then Athena, standing by, filled out his limbs again, gave girth and stature to the old field captain fresh from the bathing place.Homer -- The Odyssey
- But presently the traveller's horse sank in up to the girths, and he observed to the boy, "I thought you said that this bog had a hard bottom."Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
- A fudge-colored lady of majestic heft and girth squeezed into the seat beside me, filling the ambient space with the aroma of heliotrope.William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
- Shun the water holeTighten saddle-girth!Boris Pasternak -- Doctor Zhivago
- Hurriedly he strapped on the saddle-bags, gave quick glance to girths and cinches and stirrups, then leaped astride.Zane Grey -- Riders of the Purple Sage
- He saw the village; he was seen coming bending forward upon his horse, belabouring it with great blows, the girths dripping with blood.Gustave Flaubert -- Madame Bovary
- On such a big ship-and his right hand poked the whistle into the girth of the steward-the little boy might have been lost.Eudora Welty -- The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty
- It tickles my girths, and, besides, I can't see with my head on the ground."Rudyard Kipling -- The Jungle Book
- Ahead of her, a milkman had got down from his cart to tighten the girth straps of his horse.Ian McEwan -- Atonement
- Grogan became a pathologist, famous as a teacher in his own right, and famous for his extraordinary girth.Abraham Verghese -- Cutting for Stone
- She eyed his muscles, his height, his girth—all strength stolen from the dead Champions.Sarah J. Maas -- Throne of Glass
- Lynch smote himself sonorously on the chest and said: —Who has anything to say about my girth?James Joyce -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Catching Max's eye, he puffed out his cheeks to mock Mr. McDaniels's girth.Henry H. Neff -- The Hound of Rowan
- A huge man was next to him, more fat than muscle, his girth barely contained between the arms of the white plastic chair he sat in.James Dashner -- The Death Cure
- Mum Olga puffed up to her full height and girth.Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
- Shefford loosened the saddle-girths on Nack-yal and, leaving him to graze, went toward the hogan of Hosteen Doetin.Zane Grey -- The Rainbow Trail
- The girth of the largest Eldunari was so immense, the metal-bodied dragon was unable to wrap his arms all the way around it.Christopher Paolini -- Inheritance