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Girdling in the sense of cutting a tree's bark dates from at least 1662, the Oxford English Dictionary says.
Week in Words Erin McKean 2011
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Girdling the city's old core is a ring road – an unplanned set of linked chunks of carriageway widened over three decades.
Delhi's traffic chaos has a character of its own | Jason Burke 2011
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Girdling is the technique of constricting or cutting the stem bark, which blocks the downward flow of carbohydrates, hormones, and other substances through the phloem.
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These substances accumulate at the base of the cutting where they stimulate increased rooting. 4 Girdling can be done by lightly scoring the bark or tying string or wire around the shoot base.
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Girdling the globe and stretching from pole to pole, the Martian canal system not only embraces their whole world, but is an organized entity.
The Planet Mars And Its Inhabitants: A Psychic Revelation a Martian 1920
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Girdling with a rainbow cincture round the planet where we go,
A Vision of Beauty A. E. 1913
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Girdling her waist was a zone of rubies that burned positive in the tempered light.
Romance Island Zona Gale 1906
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Girdling Cicely with his left arm he parried her father's lunge and smote his blade aside.
I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter Tales Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903
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Girdling the villa stands a grove of ilex-trees, cut so as to embrace its high-built walls with dark continuous green.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete Series I, II, and III John Addington Symonds 1866
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Girdling the villa stands a grove of ilex-trees, cut so as to embrace its high-built walls with dark continuous green.
New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866
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