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Belt

noun

Endless loop of flexible material between two rotating shafts or pulleys.

A band to tie or buckle around the body (usually at the waist).

An elongated region where a specific condition or characteristic is found.

A vigorous blow. Synonyms: bang, bash, knock, smash. "He took a bash right in his face" , "He got a bang on the head"

A path or strip (as cut by one course of mowing). Synonym: swath.

Ammunition (usually of small caliber) loaded in flexible linked strips for use in a machine gun. Synonyms: belt ammunition, belted ammunition.

The act of hitting vigorously. Synonyms: knock, rap, whack, whang.

verb

(past & past part. belted; pres. part. belting)

Sing loudly and forcefully. Synonym: belt out.

Deliver a blow to.

Fasten with a belt.

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"Belt" Quotes from Famous Books

... himself free—a premonition of the way in which the smooth systematized routine of his wife's existence might draw him back into its revolutions as he had once seen a careless factory hand seized and dragged into a flying belt.... ...

— The Fruit of the Tree • Edith Wharton

... arm, as if hers had burnt him: his mind was off again on its old round. But she, too, had to suffer for it. As he stood back to let her pass before him, on a dry strip of the path, his eye caught a yellow rose she was wearing at her belt. Till now he had seen ...

— Maurice Guest • Henry Handel Richardson

... which run, like silver bands of peace, through the length and breadth of a land whose vast privileges we have been too blind to appreciate, and in that blindness would destroy. Above all, we are beginning to see that like two mighty champions fighting for the belt of superiority, we can neither of us achieve that individual advantage which can utterly and forever place the other beyond the ability of again accepting the gauntlet of defiance, and that our ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No IV, April 1863 - Devoted to Literature and National Policy • Various

... said, still with provoking good humour, and taking a little paper out of her belt, she opened it and flung it into Emmy's lap. "You know his handwriting. He wrote that to me—wanted me to run away with him—gave it me under your nose, the day before he was shot—and ...

— Vanity Fair • William Makepeace Thackeray

... up around your waist, and fasten the braid to your belt, and then it won't hurt it," said ...

— By the Light of the Soul - A Novel • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

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