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Belt
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.
(2):
(n.) 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.
(3):
(n.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt.
(4):
(n.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
(5):
(n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.
(6):
(n.) A token or badge of knightly rank.
(7):
(n.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.
(8):
(n.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.
(9):
(n.) That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.
(10):
(n.) That which restrains or confines as a girdle.
(11):
(v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Belt'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/belt.html. 1828.
