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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

... to "W" towards Sedd-el-Bahr, and we prayed God very fervently they might be able to press on so as to strike the right rear of the enemy troops encircling "V" Beach. At 3.10 the leading heroes—we were amazed at their daring—actually stood up in order the better to cut through a broad belt of wire entanglement. One by one the men passed through and fought their way to within a few yards of a redoubt dominating the hill between Beaches "W" and "V." This belt of wire ran perpendicularly, not parallel, to the coastline and had evidently ...

— Gallipoli Diary, Volume I • Ian Hamilton

... rich mines gold to the value of thirteen hundred millions has been taken. Yet every year she adds seventeen millions more to the world's stock of gold. No country has produced more of this precious yellow metal that men work and fight and die for. The "gold belt" of the state still holds great wealth for miners to find in ...

— Stories of California • Ella M. Sexton

... to waylay me with a buckled belt. I shan't stir out except with the Old Man or some other competent bodyguard. "'Orrible outrage, shocking death of a St Austin's schoolboy." It would look rather ...

— Tales of St. Austin's • P. G. Wodehouse

... conquerors at the start, or else it has been acquired by deliberate, protracted process during the course of a lengthy struggle, before the dramatic coup has been delivered by which the levels have been won. The wide belt of highlands extending from Switzerland to Croatia remained in the enemy's hands up to the time of the final collapse of the Dual Monarchy subsequent to the rout of the Emperor Francis' legions on the Piave. The Italians had in the ...

— Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 • Charles Edward Callwell

... the squire's wife, Matriena Pavlovna, in a lilac-colored chatoyant dress and white shawl with colored border, and beside her was Katiousha in a white dress, gathered in folds at the waist, a blue belt, and a red bow in her ...

— The Awakening - The Resurrection • Leo Nikoleyevich Tolstoy

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