v. [f. BE- 1 + GIRDLE.] trans. To encompass or bind like a girdle or belt.
1837. Carlyle, Fr. Rev., III. VII. iii. 368. Like a ring of lightening, they … begirdle her from shore to shore. Ibid. (1850), Latter-d. Pamph., viii. (1872), 285. Restless gnawing ennui … begirdles every human life so guided.
Hence, Begirdled ppl. a.
1813. Scott, Rokeby, II. i. Rock-begirdled Gilmanscar.
