CINCTURE
- to encircle (to form a circle around) [v CINCTURED, CINCTURING, CINCTURES]
- belt or girdle
- something that surrounds or encompasses as a girdle does; a surrounding border
- (on a classical column) a fillet at either end of a shaft, esp. one at the lower end
- to gird or encircle [v CINCTURED, CINCTURES, CINCTURING]
- to gird with or as if with a cincture; encircle; encompass