girthline means the circumference of an animal, measured under the belly and over the back; the part of the animal over which the girth fits. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.
Etymology
From girth + line.
noun
- The circumference of an animal, measured under the belly and over the back; the part of the animal over which the girth fits.“Linear body measurements taken on 137 ewes showed that heart girth and abdominal girthline are significantly (P < 0.01) related to ewe weight, hence size.”
- A real or imaginary line around the girth of something.“Buff body coated with white outside ; hard; 4.05 diam.; ornamented with vertical panels of burnished lattice lines, two burnished girthlines on the bulge, and one terminating the panels of lattice lines.”
- A rope or cable that attaches around the girth of something.“The torpedo method was to arrange ten torpedoes on the port side, placed outside abreast the bulkheads and the cargo-hatches so as to give the maximum sinking effect to a breach opened up by each, the torpedoes being carrie by a fore-and-aft belt-line extending along the outside from end to end about twelve feet below water, each torpedo, in addition, having a hogging-line, or girthline, extending”