English Dictionary

girthline

noun

The circumference of an animal, measured under the belly and over the back; the part of the animal over which the girth fits. / A real or imaginary line around the girth of something.

The girthline of the horse was measured to ensure a proper fit for the saddle.

意味（1）

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.

意味（2）

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.

意味（3）

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 around underneath the keel, for holding the torpedo in its place.