engirdle

Etymology

From en- + girdle.

engirdle means To encircle as if with a girdle. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

verb

To encircle as if with a girdle.“Still higher, on their left, the elevation called Bulbarrow, or Bealbarrow, well-nigh the highest in South Wessex, swelled into the sky, engirdled by its earthen trenches.”