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Belt   /bɛlt/   Listen
noun
Belt  n.  
1.
That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt. "The shining belt with gold inlaid."
2.
That which restrains or confines as a girdle. "He cannot buckle his distempered cause Within the belt of rule."
3.
Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.
4.
(Arch.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt.
5.
(Astron.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
6.
(Geog.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.
7.
(Her.) A token or badge of knightly rank.
8.
(Mech.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.
9.
(Nat. Hist.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.
Belt lacing, thongs used for lacing together the ends of machine belting.


verb
Belt  v. t.  (past & past part. belted; pres. part. belting)  
1.
To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround. "A coarse black robe belted round the waist." "They belt him round with hearts undaunted."
2.
To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep. (Prov. Eng.)





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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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