The practice of girdling has been known in Europe for some time.

Accidental girdling is also possible and some activities must be performed with care.

This girdling can easily kill young plants and is not healthy for trees or other shrubs.

Girdling is also used as a technique to force a fruit-bearing plant to bear larger fruit.

Basal girdling and death of seedlings may occur, a symptom known as collar rot.

Complete girdling of the host trunk or large limbs may occur; however, this event may take several years to even decades to accomplish.

"Girdling is the cruelest form of arborcide."

The girdling of the ancient inner city by the mid-19th-century Ringstrasse marks the subordination of the old imperial order to the rising cosmopolitan middle class.

Tree Girdling Q. Neighborhood kids have stripped a band of bark all the way around one of the trees in front of my building.

"Annual Girdling of 'Orlando' Tangelos over an Eight-Year Period."

This "girdling" of the trees worries the County Forester, Ted Kozlowski, who said that some trees were as threatened as animals by the unusually cold conditions.

The girdling had probably been caused by the way the maple was planted: most likely in a pot that didn't disintegrate right away as the tree grew, Mr. Messenger said.

Girdling is a slow process compared to felling and is often used only when necessary, such as in the removal of an individual tree from an ecologically protected area without damaging surrounding growth.

The wind belts and the girdling of the planet are steered by three cells: the Hadley cell, the Ferrel cell, and the Polar cells (the interpretation of the latter two is complex).

But for all trees, container grown or not, root girdling occurs this way: If the root flare, the transition point between roots and trunk, is below the soil surface, roots may circle the trunk above the flare.

Another example is the girdling of selective Douglas-fir trees in some Northern California Oak Woodlands, such as Annadel State Park, in order to prevent that fir from massive invasion of the mixed oak woodland.

Girdling, also called ring barking or ring-barking, is the complete removal of a strip of bark (consisting of cork cambium, phloem, cambium and sometimes going into the xylem) from around the entire circumference of either a branch or trunk of a woody plant.

Several women looked like they'd spent far too much time in girdles.

But those girdles are no longer made, and the woman leaves.

There was still no sign of the man with the girdle.

For men a girdle was often used to hold weapons.

I took the girdle away from her and dropped it.

Does the American woman really want to go back to girdles and high heels?

Get a belt or girdle to add support to your back.

Did folks still have girdles then or was that going out?

Women cut up their girdles for a national rubber drive.

Do you think I could go to the powder room and take off my girdle?' she said.

Girdle went up with me because I wanted to chatter.

He looked back to the lady as the girdle fell to the floor.

"I see that you did not have your girdle on.

Girdle is in trouble and I'm going to rescue her.

Girdle was looking grim but I rather liked his looks.

Two guys are in a gym, and one is putting on a girdle.

I'll put a girdle round about the earth In forty minutes.

Her girdle was of the same black and white mingled together.

At one time girdles were made of rubber (the good old 50s).

"What's he going to do next, put his girdle on?"

Yet nought was said of how long the girdle might be.

But, I figured a nice new girdle would cure everything.

The girdle color can be dark green, pinkish or white.

But the human girdle that dropped from the car had served as a protection for those inside.

They also spin a kind of harness or girdle around the back.

Pain girdled him from standing so long but he would not move.

Between the four of us we had girdled the globe.

"I have breathed in the air that girdles the world," the man said.

Girdling results in the death of wood tissues above the damage.

I found myself in a big hall girdled at half its height by a gallery.

In a city that girdles the world, what is the worst thing imaginable?

In general, looking down on Barcelona means going up one of the peaks that girdle the city.

I might as well have been girdled in a chastity belt.

He also invented a series based in a vine girdling a tree.

For anything he could tell he was girdled in by reefs.

A wooden gallery girdled the building between the two rows of windows.

They had been girdled and left to die, the corn planted in the open spaces between them.

The wine list girdled the earth in 20 labels.

When they reached the road girdling its high, impregnable fence it was almost dark.

Today, the sanctuary remained a crime scene, girdled in yellow tape.

Looking beyond the hanging canopy to the great band of stars girdling the night sky.

The canker eventually girdles the tree, killing everything above it.

Dark lesions of the stem may girdle the plant resulting in death.

So Margo relaxed under the arm that girdled her neck.

Plastic tubs can also create a syndrome called girdling roots.

He knew that some hidden host girdled the camp.

A huge wave girdling it was advancing towards us relentlessly.

One dead tree, estimated to have been 50 years old when it fell in 1987, was girdled with large cankers.

Beyond the ruined panels he saw a broad ring of pure white, girdling the world.