The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word GIRDLE
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More clues leading to the result GIRDLE
- Poor Ann left Leningrad in a whirl
- Young woman covering daughter with English garment
- Daughter in female fin-de-siècle corset
- Awkward ridge gets left in waistbelt
- Container for spare tyre held right back internally
- Underwear starts to give impression refurbished dress looks elegant
- Go round base of col in rocky ridge
- Belt held right over trousers
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What does GIRDLE mean?
GIRDLE noun- That which girds, encircles, or encloses; a circumference
- A belt or elasticated corset; especially, a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist, often used to support stockings or hosiery.
- The zodiac; also, the equator.
- The line of greatest circumference of a brilliant-cut diamond, at which it is grasped by the setting.
- A thin bed or stratum of stone.
- The clitellum of an earthworm.
- The removal or inversion of a ring of bark in order to kill or stunt a tree.
- To gird, encircle, or constrain by such means.
- To kill or stunt a tree by removing or inverting a ring of bark.
- A stone or metal flat plate or surface on which food is fried or baked.