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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



... time. Sometimes the older boys allowed us to go with them, when they went far from the village, to hunt rabbits, and when they did this, sometimes they told us to carry back the rabbits that they had killed; and I remember that once I came back with the heads of three rabbits tucked under my belt, killed by my cousin, who was older than I. Then we used to go out and watch the men and older boys playing at sticks; and we had little sticks of our own, and our older brothers and cousins made us ...
— When Buffalo Ran • George Bird Grinnell
... Stannard, "we feel pretty smart, don't we? Well, maybe I'll stay and see how it pans out. A fellow can always tighten his belt, you know." ...
— The Camerons of Highboro • Beth B. Gilchrist
... gray buckle with violet enamel, which cost but eighty-nine cents. For a pair of gray suede ties she paid two dollars; for a pair of gray silk stockings, ninety cents. These matters, with some gray silk net for the collar, gray silk for a belt, linings and the like, made her total bill twenty-three dollars and sixty-seven cents. She returned home content and studied "Cavalleria" until ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... his hand confidently, but it did not look promising. Thorn Hard was on foot, without a transmitter, armed only with his belt-weapons and with a girl to look after, and moreover imprisoned in a colossal dome of force which hexynitrate had failed ...
— Invasion • William Fitzgerald Jenkins
... to the other side of the wood in the hope of perhaps catching a glimpse of the thieves. Here one of them had caught his bottle-string in the brambles on the way out of the wood, and when he had looked around he had seen something flash in the shrubbery; it was the belt-buckle of the head-forester whom they then found lying behind the brambles, stretched out, with his right hand clutching the barrel of his gun, the other clenched, and his forehead split with ...
— The German Classics of The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Vol. VII. • Various


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