Meaning of girdlestead | Babel Free

Definitions

That part of the body where the girdle is worn, i.e. the waist.

obsolete

Examples

“[D]iuide your ſelfe in two halfes, iuſt by the girdleſtead; […]”

“[T]he Lance his target tooke, / Which could not interrupt the blow, that through it cleerly ſtrooke, / And in his bellies rimme was ſheath’d, beneath his girdle-ſtead; […]”

“[T]hey have made me swell above the girdle-stead.”

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