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Belting   /bˈɛltɪŋ/   Listen
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.)


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





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"Belting" Quotes from Famous Books



... canny Scotch engineer, who, in the first days of dynamos, not so very long ago, scoffed at the suggestion that such a spool, spinning in free air, in well lubricated bearings, could bring his big Corliss steam engine to a stop. Yet he saw it done simply by belting this "spool," a dynamo, to his engine and asking the dynamo for more power in terms of light than his steam could deliver in terms of mechanical power to overcome the pull of ...
— Electricity for the farm - Light, heat and power by inexpensive methods from the water - wheel or farm engine • Frederick Irving Anderson
... consciousness of a fact so tremendous was overwhelming; to save himself he turned away from the dynamo proper and began looking about for the source of its mechanical energy. He found it in an odd-appearing motor, to which the dynamo was connected by the ordinary means of a shaft and belting. ...
— The Doomsman • Van Tassel Sutphen
... complete 784 yards of belting a day—over 1600 yards of stitching, for she fastened both edges of the belt—she was forced, of course, to work as fast as she could feed and guide belts under the needle. She had strong eyes. But her back ached from the stooping to guide the material, and she suffered cruelly from pain ...
— Making Both Ends Meet • Sue Ainslie Clark and Edith Wyatt


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