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girdling†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the process of cutting a ring through the bark of a tree, thus cutting off the flow of sap and eventually killing it.
Quotations
1821
The easiest and most economical system is that named girdling.
1842
Among innumerable stumps blasted by fire and girdling, were seen wide streets at right angles to each other.
1899
Another way to clear the bush was by "girdling." This consisted in hacking the tree all around, so that in the course of six or seven years it would decay and fall.