BELTING • FREE TRANSLATOR.ORG • Definition of Belting

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/bˈɛltɪŋ/ Listen

verb

Belt v. t. (past & past part. belted; pres. part. belting)

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."

To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep. (Prov. Eng.)

noun

Belting n. The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively.

See images of 'Belting'

Etymology of 'Belting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

"Belting" Quotes from Famous Books

... been wisely directed in the first instance to the object of applying it to those purposes for which machinery could be coupled up to the motor with little, if any, necessity for slowing down the motion through such appliances as belting, toothed wheels, or other forms of intermediate gearing. The dynamo for electric lighting naturally first suggested itself; but even in this application it was found necessary to adopt a rate of speed considerably lower than that which the steam imparts to ...

— Twentieth Century Inventions - A Forecast • George Sutherland

... dropped his head upon his hand again, and Dr. Arnold resumed his slow walk up and down the carpet. The blue damask curtains had been looped back from the western window, and the broad band of yellow belting in the sky threw a mellow light over the bed where lay the unconscious heiress of the grand old Hill. Fever rouged the polished cheeks usually pure as alabaster, and touched the parted lips with deeper scarlet, lending a brilliant and almost unearthly ...

— Macaria • Augusta Jane Evans Wilson