Girder

gerd'er, n. one who or that w hich gird one of the principal pieces of timbci m a Moot binding the others together rngnvenng' any simple m compound beam sustaining a weight, and supported at both ends. Girdle, gcrd'l, U that which girds or cnrirclts, esp a band for the waist an inclosurc: 'jew a horizontal line surrounding a stone. —v t lo bind as with a gudlc. to inclose to make a circular incision, as thiough the buk of a nee to kill [AS gyrdcl -gvrdan, to gird