BELT

noun a token or badge of knightly rank.

2. belt ·noun that which restrains or confines as a girdle.

3. belt ·vt to shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep.

4. belt ·noun ·same·as band, ·noun, 2. a very broad band is more properly termed a belt.

5. belt ·noun a band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.

6. belt ·noun that which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.

7. belt ·noun a narrow passage or strait; as, the great belt and the lesser belt, leading to the baltic sea.

8. belt ·vt to encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.

9. belt ·noun one of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets jupiter and saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.

10. belt ·noun a band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.

11. belt ·noun 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.