Belt
Belt (belt) , noun
[Anglo-Saxon belt; akin to Icelandic belti, Swedish balte, Danish balte, Old High German balz, Latin balteus, Ir. & Gael. balt border, belt.]
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.
(Architecture) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt.
5.
(Astronomy) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
6.
(Geography) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.
7.
(Heraldry) A token or badge of knightly rank.
[See Illust. of Pulley.]
8.
(Mechanics) 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.
Collocations (1)
Belt lacing , thongs used for lacing together the ends of machine belting.
Belt , transitive verb
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. [Provincial English] — Halliwell