girth
131girdle — English has two words girdle. The more familiar, ‘belt’ [OE], goes back, together with its relatives garth, gird [OE], and girth [14], to a prehistoric Germanic *gurd , *gard , *gerdwhich denoted ‘surrounding’. From *gurdcame the verb *gurthjan,… …
132cast — 1. to give birth prematurely Standard English of quadrupeds, from the meaning to cause to fall: Just a pair still born at the hinner een Puir dwarfed last anes, Wee, deid, cast anes. (Lumsden, 1892, writing about lambs: hinner een means …
