You have the original meaning in English, by about a century.
a head-band or hair-ribbon a strip of material a bandage an obstetrical head-loop a perforated curb to confine the curds in making cheese a thread (of life) a root-fiber, leaf-vein, pistil, or stamen the encyliglotte a band of flesh a lobe of the liver (pl.) the loins a cut of meat from neat the loins or ribs the middle part of a leg of veal, tied with a string various bands in architecture, heraldry, zoology ("In a spider: The space between the eyes and the base of the mandibles or chelicerae") a strip of wood fastened inside an angle a line impressed on a book-cover a fairing in an angle to reduce drag
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Date: 2004-04-06 03:43 pm (UTC)a head-band or hair-ribbon
a strip of material
a bandage
an obstetrical head-loop
a perforated curb to confine the curds in making cheese
a thread (of life)
a root-fiber, leaf-vein, pistil, or stamen
the encyliglotte
a band of flesh
a lobe of the liver
(pl.) the loins
a cut of meat from neat the loins or ribs
the middle part of a leg of veal, tied with a string
various bands in architecture, heraldry, zoology
("In a spider: The space between the eyes and the base of the mandibles or chelicerae")
a strip of wood fastened inside an angle
a line impressed on a book-cover
a fairing in an angle to reduce drag
(is ultimately from the Latin filum, thread.)