Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Girdlestead \Gir"dle*stead\, n. [Girdle + stead place.]
   1. That part of the body where the girdle is worn. [Obs.]

            Sheathed, beneath his girdlestead.    --Chapman.

   2. The lap. [R.]

            There fell a flower into her girdlestead.
                                                  --Swinburne.