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Definitions of girdling in various dictionaries:
verb - cut a girdle around so as to kill by interrupting the circulation of water and nutrients
verb - put a girdle on or around
verb - to encircle with a belt
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| Present participle of girdle. |
| encircle (the body) with a girdle. |
| cut through the bark all the way round (a tree or branch), typically in order to kill it. |
| A belt or cord worn round the waist. |
| A woman's elasticated corset extending from waist to thigh. |
| The part of a cut gem dividing the crown from the base and embraced by the setting. |
| A ring made around a tree by removing bark. |
| Encircle (the body) with a girdle. |
| Cut through the bark all the way round (a tree or branch), typically in order to kill it or to kill a branch to make the tree more fruitful. |
| A heavy, flat iron plate that is heated and used for cooking food a griddle. |
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Girdling, also called ring-barking is the complete removal of a strip of bark (consisting of cork cambium or "phellogen", phloem, cambium and sometimes going into the xylem) from around the entire circumference of either a branch or trunk of a woody plant. Girdling results in the death of the area above the girdle over time. A branch completely girdled will fail and when the main trunk of a tree is girdled, the entire tree will die, if it cannot regrow from above to bridge the wound. Among the causes of girdling are human practices, including forestry, horticulture, and vandalism. Foresters use the practice of girdling to thin forests. Girdling can also be caused by herbivorous mammals feeding on plant bark and by birds and insects, both of which can effectively girdle a tree by boring rows of adjacent holes. * Orchardists use girdling as a cultural technique to yield larger fruit or set fruit, often called cincturing used in agriculture. Only the layer just under the bark is remov |