engirdling

Verb

engirdle (third-person singular simple present engirdles, present participle engirdling, simple past and past participle engirdled)

1. (transitive) To encircle as if with a girdle.
   • Still higher, on their left, the elevation called Bulbarrow, or Bealbarrow, well-nigh the highest in South Wessex, swelled into the sky, engirdled by its earthen trenches.1891, Thomas Hardy, Tess of the d'Urbervilles, volume 1, London: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., page 51

   Synonyms:

   engird