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Belt

noun

Endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys.

A band to tie or buckle around the body (usually at the waist).

An elongated region where a specific condition or characteristic is found.

A vigorous blow. Synonyms: bang, bash, knock, smash. "He took a bash right in his face" , "He got a bang on the head"

A path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing). Synonym: swath.

Ammunition (usually of small caliber) loaded in flexible linked strips for use in a machine gun. Synonyms: belt ammunition, belted ammunition.

The act of hitting vigorously. Synonyms: knock, rap, whack, whang.

verb

(past & past part. belted; pres. part. belting)

Sing loudly and forcefully. Synonym: belt out.

Deliver a blow to.

Fasten with a belt.

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"Belt" Quotes from Famous Books

... a couple of buttons and a belt plate. The buttons bore the royal arms of England; the belt plate was emblazoned with the English arms and also ...

— Famous Modern Ghost Stories • Various

... And let me say here to those women who not only hang back from this encounter but who throw obstacles in the way of true reform and progress, that the shallow ground upon which they stand is within the belt of the moral earthquake, and that what they build ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... wizard told a man whom he knew that, if any one were to climb a certain mountain-peak and jump off on to the belt of clouds below, he would be able to ride about on them as on a horse, and see the whole world. Trusting in this, the man did as the wizard had told him, and in very truth was enabled to ride about on the clouds. He visited the whole world in ...

— Aino Folk-Tales • Basil Hall Chamberlain

... others, thousands of Kafir men and women would not have been carried into slavery by the Afghans, hundreds of Kafir villages would not have been destroyed, and the area of Kafir traditions would not have been both corrupted and narrowed by the broadening of the belt of "Nimchas," or converted Kafirs, which so increases the difficulties of an exhaustive inquiry into at least the past of an interesting race. Above all should we have had a faithful ally in our operations ...

— Memoir of William Watts McNair • J. E. Howard

... belt about his waist, supported by two straps over his shoulders, were attached his revolver, in its case with twenty rounds of cartridges; his field glasses; his map-case; his bidon—for his wine; square document case; his mask against asphyxiating ...

— On the Edge of the War Zone - From the Battle of the Marne to the Entrance of the Stars and Stripes • Mildred Aldrich

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