BELT

Definitions

1. 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. Dryden.
2. 2. That which restrains or confines as a girdle. He cannot buckle his distempered cause Within the belt of rule. Shak.
3. 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. 4. Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt.
5. 5. One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
6. 6. A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.
7. 7. A token or badge of knightly rank.
8. 8. A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.
9. 9. 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.