girdling
['gə:dliŋ]
束腰

1. A thick forest girdled the castle about.
   片浓密森围着堡。
2. A thick forest girdled the village about.
   茂密森环抱着那庄。

Girdle \Gir"dle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Girdled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Girdling}.]
1. To bind with a belt or sash; to gird. --Shak.

2. To inclose; to environ; to shut in.

Those sleeping stones,
That as a waist doth girdle you about. --Shak.

3. To make a cut or gnaw a groove around (a tree, etc.)
through the bark and alburnum, thus killing it. [U. S.]