n. A band or girdle; especially, a band passed under the belly of a horse or other animal, and drawn tight and fastened, to secure a saddle or a pack on its back.n. The measure round a person's body or round a pillar, tree, or anything of a cylindrical or roundish shape.n. A girdling; a circuit; a perimeter; an encircling inclosure.n. In car-building, a long horizontal bracing-timber on the inside of the frame of a box-car.n. In. printing, one of two bands of leather or stout webbing (also called straps) attached to the rounce of a hand-press, used for running the carriage in and out.To bind with a girth.To encircle or surround with a measuring-line, as in measuring moldings, etc.