We want to see them girdled with a wall of green and inviolate.
This is surely becoming more and more important as our shores are becoming more closely girdled by war operations.
If it is prematurely sold and not girdled about and proper investment is not made in it, it will disappear for ever.
In a rather different field of security, safes have been anchored to prevent removal by burglars and many of them have been girdled with special alarm devices.
It will have no form of life in it, and it will be girdled round with barbed wire, perhaps six feet high, in order to keep out the deer.
The giant girdled lizard is protected by spiny dorsal scales and four large occipital spines along the back of its head.
Where one-quarter or less of the trunk circumference has been girdled, it may not be necessary to use this technique.
They girdled the large trees and burned the area to clear the land, planting corn, beans and squash.
