girthlines

Noun

girthline (plural girthlines)

1. The circumference of an animal, measured under the belly and over the back; the part of the animal over which the girth fits.
   • Linear body measurements taken on 137 ewes showed that heart girth and abdominal girthline are significantly (P < 0.01) related to ewe weight, hence size.1988, Turrialba: Revista Interamericano de Ciencias Agricolas- volume 38
2. A real or imaginary line around the girth of something.
   • Buff body coated with white outside ; hard; 4.05 diam.; ornamented with vertical panels of burnished lattice lines, two burnished girthlines on the bulge, and one terminating the panels of lattice lines.1921, Heywood Sumner, A Descriptive Account of Roman Pottery Sites at Sloden and Black Heath Meadow, Linwood, New Forest
3. A rope or cable that attaches around the girth of something.
   • The torpedo method was to arrange ten torpedoes on the port side, placed outside abreast the bulkheads and the cargo-hatches so as to give the maximum sinking effect to a breach opened up by each, the torpedoes being carrie by a fore-and-aft belt-line extending along the outside from end to end...1899, The Century - Volume 57, page 267