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beltn.1

Brit. /bɛlt/, U.S. /bɛlt/
Forms: Old English– belt, Middle English–1600s belte, 1500s beult, 1600s bellt (Scottish), 1600s beilt (Scottish).
Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.
Etymology: Cognate with Old High German balz and perhaps Old Icelandic belti, Old Swedish, Swedish bälte, Old Danish bæltæ (Danish bælte), < classical Latin balteus (also balteum, common in post-classical Latin) shoulder band or baldric for supporting a sword or quiver, girdle, of unknown origin (of Etruscan origin according to ancient authors).The exact relationship of the Germanic forms to each other is uncertain. It is possible that they all reflect a common base borrowed from Latin at an early date, but the vocalism of the Old High German word suggests that it may instead show an independent later borrowing, and the Scandinavian word may have been transmitted via Old English. Specific senses. In sense 3c short for lifebelt n. (a) at life n. Compounds 3. In sense 3d short for seat belt n. at seat n. Compounds 2. In sense 3e short for chastity belt n. at chastity n. Compounds 2. In use with reference to martial arts (see sense 2c) originally after Japanese obi sash, belt (see obi n.1). With uses relating to bands or strips more generally (see branch III.) compare earlier band n.2 II. Danish place name. In use with reference to passages between the islands in Denmark (see sense 6) after the unrelated Danish place name Bælt, which in English use was associated with belt n.1, apparently on account of the long and narrow shape of these passages, which also partly encircle the islands, especially Fyn (perhaps compare sense 8, although this is first attested later). The Danish place name originally denoted the Kattegat, especially its southern part including the passages between the islands (compare Old Danish Bælte sund the Great Belt); as a simplex it now usually denotes the Great Belt (17th cent.). The exact origin of the name is uncertain, but it probably ultimately reflects the same Baltic or Slavonic base as Baltic adj. Compare Swedish Bält , denoting any of the passages around the Danish islands (16th cent. with reference to the Great Belt), Middle Low German Belt (part of) the Baltic Sea (also Beltemēr the Baltic Sea), German Belt , denoting any of the passages around the Danish islands, especially the Great Belt (1635 or earlier; compare Middle High German Beltemer the Baltic Sea). In Great Belt and Little Belt after Danish Storebælt and Lillebælt (both 17th cent., earliest as noun phrases). In belt of Fehmarn (see compare quot. 1906) after German Fehmarnbelt (19th cent. or earlier; compare Danish Femern Bælt).
I. A strap, band, strip, etc., which goes around or confines a person or thing, typically for support or protection.
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a. A flat strip of leather or other material fastened around the waist or from the shoulder to the opposite hip to secure or draw in clothing, as a means of carrying weapons, tools, etc., or as a decorative accessory.cartridge belt, sword belt, waist belt, etc.: see the first element.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > belt or sash
belteOE
scarfa1555
mitre?1609
sash1681
sash ribbon1861
eOE Let. to Edward the Elder (Sawyer 1445) in N. P. Brooks & S. E. Kelly Charters of Christ Church Canterbury, Pt. 2 (2013) 852 Ða Helmstan ða undæde gedyde ðæt he Æðęredes belt forstæl ða ongon Higa him specan sona on.
eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 77 Balteum, gyrdel uel belt.
a1350 Maximian (Harl.) l. 133 in K. Böddeker Altengl. Dichtungen (1878) 249 (MED) Of belte y wes briht, ant louelyche ydiht, ant fayrest mon of londe.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 9 And by his belt he baar a long Panade.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) x. 175 And ber Ane hachit, that war scharp to scher Vndir his belt.
a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid l. 162 in Poems (1981) 116 Atouir his belt his lyart lokkis lay Felterit vnfair.
1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 i. ii. 139 He that buckles himselfe in my belt . View more context for this quotation
1676 G. Etherege Man of Mode iii. i. 35 Set your right leg firm on the ground, adjust Your Belt.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 177 I had on a broad Belt of Goat's-Skin dry'd, which I drew together with two Thongs of the same.
1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor vi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. III. 77 Ravenswood..uncocked and returned his pistol to his belt.
1869 C. Boutell tr. J. P. Lacombe Arms & Armour ii. 24 The sword..hung from a belt that passed over the shoulder.
1959 Vogue Dec. 91 A soft..dress, in pure silk, is scoop-necked, paragraphed with a lightly tying belt.
2015 Erie (Pa.) Times-News (Nexis) 13 Sept. (Lifestyle section) Leave the sweater open, or cinch it together with a fashionable belt high on the waist.
b. figurative and in figurative contexts.
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1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 27 A Belte of lechery, cestus.
a1500 Songs Costume (1849) 60 Hir belt suld be of benignitie About her middill meit.
1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke xxiv. f. cxciv With the belt of chastitie, & with shooes of the ghospels making, which is an herte pure from all yearthly affeccions.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) v. ii. 16 He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause Within the belt of Rule. View more context for this quotation
1692 J. Dryden Cleomenes ii. ii. 23 'Tis an Embrace; a Grasping of Desire; A very Belt of Love, that Girds his Waste.
1834 F. D. Hemans in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Apr. 505 Our lives were girdled by one belt of love.
1982 A. Grossman Of Great House 58 I died once in Pompeii in a gilded bath Wearing only the belt of my servitude.
2013 L. J. Ogilvie Experiencing Power Holy Spirit 126 We are to gird around our waists the belt of truth.
c. Originally and chiefly Scottish. A belt or similar strap used for administering corporal punishment. Also with the: the punishment of being struck with a belt. Cf. strap n. 1b, taws n. 2.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > strap
tawsa1585
stirrup-leather1611
strapc1710
belt1767
1767 Scots Mag. Sept. 451/2 He beat her with the buckle-end of a leathern belt.
1843 Colburn's United Service Mag. July 384 Booting is a punishment which..consisted in flogging a man with a belt on the soles of the feet.
1947 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 18 May 4/1 Parents often..take the line of least resistance and resort to the belt.
1985 A. Blair Tea at Miss Cranston's xx. 167 I got the belt at school for writing a letter in the class to a boy called Peter Johnson.
1990 D. Hamilton Learning about Educ. viii. 66 Teachers curbed, coerced and kidded their pupils with the aid of a leather strap colloquially known as the belt.
2013 M. Zailckas Mother, Mother (2014) 113 My dad..was only hitting me with a belt. Back in the day, my best friend's father liked to hit him with a two-by-four.
2. A belt signifying a rank or achievement.
a. A distinctive belt worn as a mark of rank or distinction; esp. a sword belt signifying earldom or knighthood. Now chiefly historical.
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society > society and the community > social class > symbol of rank > [noun] > girdle
belt1610
society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > garment or dress > other
belt1610
epaulette1816
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [noun] > belt or sash > types of
belt1610
Petersham belt1930
1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie ii. vi. 56 The depriuing of the Belt (which was wont to be termed, the discincture or ungirding).
1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity i. v. 110 An officer..threw away his belt, rather than obey that impious command.
1725 New Dict. Heraldry 288 The Romans practis'd the Degrading of Martial Men for such Offences as deserv'd it, which was done by taking from them their Sword and Belt in Publick.
1828 Amer. Ann. Reg. 1826–7 276/1 In binding around me this belt, I feel that I am assuming obligations of transcendant importance.
1867 Jrnl. Kilkenny & South East of Ireland Archæol. Soc. 5 141 The king received his homage, and conferred on him the knight's belt.
1968 M. Greenleaf Banner over Me vi. 52 He sat tall in the saddle.., the blazing belt of an earl girding the green cloak and holding the rich scabbard which swung at his hip.
2016 M. Strickland Henry the Young King vii. 149 Some of the Young King's leading supporters..noted that among those who deserted Henry II were some men..on whom he had bestowed the belt of knighthood.
b. Chiefly in combat sports such as boxing: a belt, typically broad and adorned with metal plates as decoration, awarded to a champion as a trophy; such a belt as representative of a championship.The first belt given as a prize for victory in a sporting contest is thought to have been that presented to the English bare-knuckle boxer Tom Cribb (1781–1848) by King George III following Cribb's defeat of the American Tom Molineaux in December 1810. In modern professional boxing belts are awarded in individual weight classes by a number of different organizations.
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1812–13 P. Egan Boxiana I. 422 We understand that an emblematical Belt has been some time preparing for the Champion [i.e. Tom Cribb], but not yet presented to him.
1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. vii. 76 They fight each other for the champion's belt and two hundred pounds a-side.
1872 R. D. Blackmore Maid of Sker II. xxvii. 10 He had held the belt seven years..for wrestling, as well as for bruising.
1903 Golf Illustr. 24 July 68/2 Young Tom [Morris], in addition to winning the belt, got the prize of £6.
1988 Toronto Star (Nexis) 29 Jan. (Final ed.) c7 The two met for the belt in WrestleMania III in March of last year.
2005 Times 10 Jan. 73/2 Kostya Tszyu..agreed to defend his IBF belt in Manchester on June 4.
c. In judo, karate, and certain other martial arts: a belt indicating by its colour the level of proficiency attained by the wearer; the rank represented by such a belt. Frequently with modifying adjective specifying the belt's colour, as in black belt (see black belt n. 3), red belt (red belt n. 2), etc. Cf. obi n.1The coloured belt system was instituted in 1884 or 1885 by Jigoro Kano for his new sport of judo and from 1924 was adopted and developed by Shotokan karate and other martial arts, first within Japan and then more widely.Recorded earliest in black belt n. 3a.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > martial arts > [noun] > belt
belt1911
black belt1911
brown belt1937
red belt1937
green belt1940
yellow belt?1942
1911 Oriental Econ. Rev. 10 Jan. 80/1 There were 1041 men of all grades entitled to wear a black belt and to teach the beginners [judo].
1913 E. J. Harrison Fighting Spirit Japan iv. 59 The only outward distinction of rank in the Kano school lies in the colour of the belt.
1959 Pop. Mech. July 216/2 Students progress in karate skills in a series of belts.
1995 Sun Herald (Sydney) (Nexis) 16 Apr. 89 He holds a red belt in tae kwon do.
2006 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 24 Oct. b1 A..former cop who had a black belt in karate.
3. A belt designed for a specific function, esp. for protection from falling, drowning, collision, etc. Cf. safety belt n.
a. A life belt.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > other equipment of vessel > [noun] > float to support person in water
belt1758
jacket1762
marine collar1764
lifebuoy1783
life-preserver1804
life jacket1819
safety belt1836
lifebelt1841
life vest1848
life ring1911
preserver1912
Mae West1940
1758 Gentleman's Mag. Dec. 608/1 Had the soldiers at St Cas, been furnished with these belts, the inventor says, hardly a man of them could have been drowned.
1857 Colburn's United Service Mag. Oct. 224 We consider that it would be a great boon to the merchant seamen of our country if every merchant vessel were compelled..to have on board..as many of these belts as formed the number of the crew.
1874 Naut. Mag. Apr. 360 All hands were saved by life-jackets except two: one a sailor, who was killed with the belt on, and the other my unfortunate brother.
1943 T. W. Lawson Thirty Seconds over Tokyo 76 Through some streak of luck the shock of being thrown out of the plane in the crash had broken the dioxide capsule that inflates the belt.
2012 J. J. Domagalski Sunk in Kula Gulf ix. 103 The officer inflated the belt, securely fastened it to him and pushed him over the side.
b. An undergarment worn around the waist or torso, esp. a corset or a suspender belt.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > underwear > [noun] > corset
busk1581
a pair of stays1608
bodicea1625
stay1731
corset1795
belt1818
foundation garment1927
foundation1939
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for legs > clothing for legs and feet > [noun] > stocking > for holding up > suspender belt
suspender belt1926
garter belt1959
belt1961
1818 Morning Post 12 Feb. (advt.) An elastic supporting belt, for persons inclining to corpulency.
1880 Draper's Jrnl. 24 June p. iii (advt.) Important to ladies. The new model figure belts.
1932 R. Lehmann Invitation to Waltz i. ix. 98 Etty wears..just her belt and knickers.
1961 Housewife Apr. 114/2 Dainty bra..matching belt with adjustable suspenders.
2013 Mail on Sunday (Nexis) 2 June These girdles, belts, corsets and pants are practical garments made of such unglamorous materials as nylon and Spandex.
c. Australian and New Zealand. A wide belt with line attached, worn by a person (esp. a member of a surf life-saving team) who swims to the rescue of another person. Also attributive, as belt rescue, belt swimmer, etc. See also beltman n. 3.
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1905 Sunday Sun (Sydney) 31 Dec. 6/5 Two young men..ran to the life-saving apparatus, consisting of a line and belt, and rushed into the surf after the distressed swimmers.
1922 Brisbane Courier 23 Dec. 4/2 Feeling unable to swim to shore,..he signalled for help... A new member of the Kirra Surf Life Saving brigade..swam out in the belt.
1987 Victor Harbor (Austral.) Times 22 Apr. 18 The day-long examination involved..reel, line and belt rescues, board and tube rescues, [etc.].
2014 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 9 Jan. 4 Tributes flowed for the ‘larger than life man’ who..was..regarded by many as one of the country's best body surfers and belt swimmers.
d. A safety belt in a motor vehicle, aeroplane, etc.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > parts and equipment of motor vehicles > [noun] > seat-belt
belt1915
seat belt1932
safety belt1938
lap belt1952
lap strap1960
harness1962
inertia reel1962
1915 Washington Post 18 Apr. (Miscellany section) 3/3 The belt broke and he had to hang on to the body of the machine the best way he could.
1923 Boys' Life July 14/1 He fastened his belt and taxied the machine out onto the flying field.
1948 Flying June 46/2 No agreement has been reached regarding increased strength for the belt's anchorage points.
1974 Times 4 Apr. 37/3 The flashing red light and loud ‘clicker’..persuade front-seat occupants to fasten their belts.
2003 J. Castro in Parents Nov. 32/3 We tickle my 18-month-old daughter to get her to stop squirming and kicking in the car seat. This way, she relaxes, and we can get her belt on.
e. A chastity belt.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > virginity > [noun] > device for preserving virginity
chastity belt1910
belt1973
1973 J. M. MacDonald Indecent Exposure x. 152 His wife locked the belt in the morning and unlocked it at night.
1996 S. Dening Mythol. of Sex v. 146 A jealous husband could lock the belt over his wife's hips and keep the key, confident that she would live a nun-like existence while he was away from home.
2001 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 23 May 23/1 Most of the belts we sell are male belts.
4. An extra layer of material, in later use a layer of thick metal armour plating, fitted around the outside of the hull of a warship, typically extending from the main deck down to below the waterline. Now chiefly historical.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > sheathing > armour-plating
belting1567
armour plate1683
belt1822
armour1838
armour plating1860
cuirass1860
belt armour1866
water-line armour1884
glacis plate1889
1822 W. Annesley New Syst. Naval Archit. 16 The belt of 4 strakes of 5 inches wide was then laid entirely round.
1879 Daily News 6 Nov. 5/3 They were armoured on the belt system, their thickest plates being confined to the neighbourhood of the water-line.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 21 Jan. 1/1 Naval officers will feel profoundly uncomfortable in taking an ironclad without a complete belt into action.
1978 Mariner's Mirror 64 31 The Board decided to have a sixteen-knot, 7,000-ton ship with a ten-inch belt.
2015 Times (Nexis) 14 Jan. Her protection consisted of a complete belt of iron armour 12in thick amidships.
5. Originally and chiefly North American. A strip of reinforcing material (esp. steel) fitted beneath the tread of a tyre for greater durability.
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1964 Rubber & Plastics Age May 526/1 The tread belt is a highly stressed component and there are two clear schools of thought as to whether the belt should be metallic or textile.
1966 Pop. Sci. Dec. 73 The belt is a hoop that fits around the tire circumference and provides a rigid, nonstretching base for the tread.
1969 Los Angeles Times 8 Nov. i. 7/4 The glass belts hold the tread firm.
2008 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 Apr. c2/3 The heavy-duty tires these companies make..are made of rubber and all-steel belts to shoulder heavy loads.
II. A relatively long and thin or encircling region of sea, land, sky, space, etc.
6. Geography. Applied to each of several straits connecting the Baltic Sea and the Kattegat: esp. (a) Great Belt: the strait lying between the Danish islands of Zealand and Funen; (b) Little Belt: the strait lying between Jutland and the Danish island of Funen. Cf. sound n.1 4c.
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the world > the earth > water > sea or ocean > channel > [noun] > specific strait
Hellespont1596
Magellan1596
Magellan straits1613
phare1615
the Sounda1643
belt1644
fare1653
Magellanic Straits1690
1644 J. Avery Lett. from Hamborough 4 We are now lying here in the Dorpes about the King of Denmarks Foot, which lyes in a retrenched Leaguer on this side of the Belt, over against Middleford in Funen.
1670 R. Manley Hist. Late Warres in Denmark ii. 74 The Great and Little Belt, and all other Passages into the Baltick Sea.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Belts, in navigation, denote certain streights near the sound, thro' which ships must pass going between the Baltic and the German ocean.
1801 Monthly Mag. 12 108/2 Assens is a small town lying on the Little Belt, chiefly inhabited by fishermen.
1874 W. S. Cooke Armed Strength Denmark Pref. p. vi The establishments on the Great Belt will facilitate the transport of troops between Seeland and Fünen.
1906 H. B. C. Sollas & W. J. Sollas tr. E. Suess Face of Earth II. iii. x. 426 With a rapid rise the sea rushed through the belt of Fehmarn.
1986 Courier-Mail (Nexis) 20 Sept. You reach Funen over a long graceful bridge from Esbjerg and Jutland in the west. It spans water the Danes call the Little Belt.
2007 Western Morning News (Plymouth) (Nexis) 8 Dec. 5 Denmark's three major waterways of the Sound, the Great Belt and the Little Belt.
7. Astronomy.
a. Any of the broad latitudinal stripes visible across the surface of Jupiter or other planets of the gas giant type; esp. one of the darker stripes, corresponding to a region of downward atmospheric flow. Also: (more widely) an encircling band or zone of distinct appearance or properties on or around a planetary or other astronomical body, typically perpendicular to the body's axis.radiation belt: see the first element.
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the world > the universe > planet > [noun] > part of planet
terminator1661
belt1665
fascia1704
fibre1715
white spot1784
dayside1827
nightside1848
albedo1860
north pole1861
polar cap1863
core1882
regolith1897
tectonics1899
sediment ring1955
radiation belt1958
palaeo-radius1960
space needle1961
soil1967
1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 3 He hath remarked in the Belts of Jupiter the shaddows of his satellites.
1786 J. Bonnycastle Introd. Astron. 42 The body of Jupiter is surrounded by several parallel faint substances called Belts.
1825 W. Hamilton Hand-bk. Terms Arts & Sci. Fasciæ, the belts seen on the discs of the superior planets.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Poems 113 The burning belts, the mighty rings, The murmurous planets' rolling choir.
1857 W. C. Bond Observ. Planet Saturn 9 The dusky belt in the middle, though steadily seen, is not so dark as it has been.
1907 A. R. Wallace Is Mars Habitable? i. 2 Their belts are but the cloud-strata of their upper atmosphere.
1962 W. B. Thompson Introd. Plasma Physics i. 4 Recently, rocket- and satellite-borne counters have detected belts of energetic radiation, electrons and ions, high above the earth's atmosphere.
1998 Mod. Astronomer Mar. 52/2 This glow..appears to bear no relation to the glowing belts of oxygen and sulphur atoms observed in the equatorial regions of the Jovian moon.
2013 Sky at Night Apr. 53/1 The Great Red Spot [of Jupiter] sits in a hollow in the main belt known as the South Equatorial Belt.
b. A zone or region of the solar system, or of any planetary system, in which objects of a particular kind orbit at relatively high density and at broadly similar distances from the centre.Earliest in asteroid belt (see asteroid belt n. at asteroid adj. and n. Additions). See also Kuiper belt n.
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the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > [noun]
zone1559
belt1867
1867 J. Ennis Origin of Stars xxxiii. 292 In view of the dimensions of the rings which formed the planets.., we cannot suppose that a single ring occupied all the space within the asteroid belt.
1932 C. D. Simak in Wonder Stories Nov. 515/1 The two tiny slabs of rock, revolving about each other, made up a part of the asteroid belt, all that remained of a mythical planet between Mars and Jupiter (which must have disrupted into the thousands of tiny fragments many millions of years before).
1954 G. Willans How to be Topp ii. 28 Uranus: This is 1782 million miles away and you hav to pass through a belt of planetoids to get there.
1995 Nature 27 Apr. 762/2 A comet belt beyond Neptune would be a dynamically efficient source for the observed short-period comets.
2001 Nature 24 May 423/1 The idea of a belt of icy bodies surrounding the outer planets goes back to 1930, soon after the discovery of Pluto.
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a. A broad strip of terrain, land, etc., of a particular type, which encircles or surrounds something; a similar encircling pattern or arrangement of trees, buildings, etc. Cf. green belt n. 3.
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the world > the earth > land > tract > [noun] > strip
sideling1250
tail1472
strake1503
vein1555
slip1591
neckland1598
slang1610
spang1610
screed1615
gore1650
spong1650
belt1725
slinget1790
stripe1801
strip1816
wedge1867
ribbon1923
1725 P. Shaw Philos. Wks. R. Boyle I. 601 The belt of ice on the outside became narrower, till at length, when the snow was quite dissolved, the ice presently vanish'd.
1770 T. Whately Observ. Mod. Gardening 177 The decorations are..disposed along the sides of a walk, which, with its appendages, forms a broad belt round the grazing grounds.
1796 E. Burke Let. to Noble Lord 23 The proud Keep of Windsor, rising in majesty of proportion, and girt with the double belt of its kindred and coeval towers.
1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 473 To plant a belt of Scotch firs around the inside of the circular drain.
1847 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Peru II. iii. x. 53 The American hunter, who endeavours to surround himself with a belt of wasted land, when overtaken by a conflagration.
1963 Times 12 Mar. p. vi/4 Light's noble belt of parklands around the capital has been so barbered and coiffured that rose gardens and ornamental ponds begin to replace gum-trees and native grasses.
2015 Africa News (Nexis) 7 Oct. This is the vast, 700 million hectare belt of savannas..that encircle Africa's equatorial rainforests.
b. gen. A broad strip, band, or stripe which encircles or forms a ring around a person or thing; a similar encircling pattern or arrangement of objects, images, etc.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > surrounding > [noun] > that which surrounds > encircling band or ring
sengilbondc1479
colletc1530
verge1573
engirdling1598
zone1605
girdlea1616
belting1676
belt1753
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. (at cited word) The denomination belt is also applied to a sort of bandage in use among surgeons.
1788 J. C. Smyth in Med. Communications 2 184 The Zona, or Belt..seems to partake of the nature of a herpes.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 175 A belt of mirrors round a taper's flame.
1875 C. D. E. Fortnum Maiolica v. 49 The body is decorated with two belts of grotesques.
1946 A. Nelson Princ. Agric. Bot. iii. 45 The medullary rays pass outwards till they meet a ring or belt of parenchyma called the cortex.
2006 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 3 Aug. e3/1 Some doctors perform ‘belt lipectomy’ surgery in which they remove a circumferential belt of skin from a patient's waist.
9. Masonry. A course or band of stone or brick slightly projecting or (less commonly) indented from the surface of a wall, or consisting of a different kind of masonry to the surrounding courses; = belt course n. at Compounds 3. Now rare.After the 18th cent. apparently chiefly in dictionaries and glossaries.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > string-course or -moulding
curstable1278
tablec1400
ledgement1435
wreath1677
cordon1706
tablette1723
belt1730
string1809
string-course1825
belt course1830
tablet1830
string-moulding1833
rope border1855
stringing course1861
racecourse1883
1730 A. Gordon tr. F. S. Maffei Compl. Hist. Anc. Amphitheatres ii. ii. 203 The Height remaining at present, is about 80 Feet, including..the fourth Order; nor is there any doubt but that such an Order has been, because we see the very Stones.., which form'd the first Tyre or Belt thereof [It. la prima fascia].
1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Belt (Mason.), a range or course of stones or bricks projecting from the rest, which may be either plain or fluted, &c.
1892 W. Watson Civil Engin., Public Wks., & Archit. ii. xxviii. 739 A continuous belt of masonry 1 meter thick and 0.40 meter high.
1990 F. Karantoni & M. N. Fardis in Struct. Conservation of Stone Masonry Internat. Techn. Conf. 1989 157 Since the analysis is linear-elastic, horizontal belts (at the lintels, with depth equal to 0,3m, and width equal to that of the wall) or vertical ones (at the 4 corners, with horizontal dimensions equal to 0,5m), are introduced in the model.
10.
a. A broad strip, band, or stripe extending across a surface (esp. that of the earth) from which it differs in nature, composition, colour, etc.; a line of things across a surface. Also: an area or tract of land which is long in proportion to its breadth; (more generally) a zone or region.
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the world > the earth > region of the earth > zone or belt > [noun]
linea1387
climatea1393
clime1553
region1556
zone1559
belt1796
subzone1851
dead zone1926
1796 H. Hunter tr. J.-H. B. de Saint-Pierre Stud. Nature I. iv. 211 He extracted long belts [Fr. bandes] of land and sea fogs, which accompany the melting of all ices.
1802 Pittsburgh Gaz. 23 July The very extraordinary appearance of a remarkably luminous belt of light.
1808 F. Wilford in Asiatic Researches (London ed.) 8 264 The language of the followers of Brahma, their geographical knowledge, their history and mythology, have extended through a range or belt about forty degrees broad, across the old continent.
1879 A. W. Tourgée Fool's Errand xlvi. 353 You have just come through the infected belt [of yellow fever].
1913 F. S. Eden Anc. Stained & Painted Glass iii. 55 The figures..formed a belt of colour right across the main lights of the window.
1965 Science 9 Oct. 231/2 A belt of volcanoes stretches across lower Asia, down through Java and Sumatra where it joins the Pacific Ring of Fire.
2008 C. McIvor Bend in Nile vii. 106 Where the belt of vegetation along the river met the desert proper.
b. With preceding modifying word. A zone or region of distinctive character; spec. one which is notable for the production of a particular product. Chiefly U.S. in early use.Frequently used (often with capital initial) in the names of particular zones or regions, the most common of which are treated separately, as Bible Belt, Corn Belt, rust belt, etc.Recorded earliest in gold belt n. at gold n.1 and adj. Compounds 1e.
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1851 Daily News 15 Nov. 1/3 Numerous veins have been found to exist in other portions of the gold belt.
1863 Harper's Mag. Oct. 718/1 The enterprising town..is the wheat-market for a considerable section of the wheat-belt of the state.
1869 Overland Monthly July 12/1 Between the short-staple [cotton] belt and the rice and long-staple belt of the coast.
1875 Congress. Rec. Jan. 342/1 During this campaign I made a number of speeches in Georgia. I spoke in what is known as the ‘Black Belt’.
1960 Spectator 29 July 173 The Copper Belt is necessary to Southern Rhodesia.
1960 Observer 25 Dec. 7/6 A stately great drag headed for the stockbrokers' belt.
2016 Jerusalem Rep. (Nexis) 2 May (Features) 20 They became part of the poverty belt in the south, afflicted by rampant unemployment and crime.
III. A flexible strip of material.
11. A broad, patterned strip of wampum beads strung together, made by some eastern North American Indian peoples as records or symbolic representations of important messages, events, speeches, treaties, etc., and hence also used as ceremonial gifts; see wampum n. 1a. Frequently in belt of wampum (cf. wampum belt n. at wampum n. Compounds 2).peace belt, war belt: see the first element.
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the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > types of ornamentation > jewellery > jewellery of specific shape or form > [noun] > bead(s) > belt made of beads
wampum belt1676
belt of wampum1694
wampum record1881
1694 Acct. Treaty between Benjamin Fletcher & Indians of Five Nations 27 The Senekes of late have sent a Belt of Wampum to the Indians of Delaware River, requiring them to take up the Hatchet of War, and fight along with them.
1750 W. Douglass Summary State Brit. Settlements N.-Amer. (1752) II. 219 Our Indians formerly accounted by single Wampum, by Strings of Wampum, and by Belts of Wampum; in the same Manner as the English account by the Denominations of Pence, Shillings, and Pounds.
1786 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 76 234 It is incumbent on the survivor to replace him, by presenting to his family either a scalp, a prisoner, or a belt consisting of some thousands of wampum.
1844 R. W. Emerson Ess. 2nd Ser. i. 21 Life, which can dwarf any and every circumstance, and to which the belt of wampum, and the commerce of America, are alike.
1960 J. L. Beattie Split in Sky xxi. 173 A papoose board with leather trappings, a turtle rattle,..and two belts of wampum.
2012 Timaru (N.Z.) Herald (Nexis) 21 Mar. (Features section) 11 The new narrative was reinforced with physical symbols, akin to a currency or a flag, in the form of belts of beads made of wampum.
12. A continuous band of material used in machinery.
a. A band of tough flexible material, now typically rubber, passing around wheels, rollers, etc., to transmit motion and power from one component to another. Cf. belt drive n. at Compounds 3.drive belt, fan belt, V-belt, etc.: see the first element.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > [noun] > driving mechanism
belt1795
drive belt1860
driveshaft1860
belt-driving1875
belt drive1884
drive1892
1795 W. Sellars & P. Standage Brit. Patent 2034 (1856) 4 The wood roller..has its motion by a pully and belt, which communicates with another pully fixed on the axis of the roller.
1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husb. Scotl. i. 72 The threshing-mill has generally one set of fanners attached to it, driven by a belt from the end of the axle of the threshing drum.
1883 S. Chappel Sewing Machine 24 You will find when you want to work the machine that the belt, owing to the continued stretch, is too slack.
1927 L. Toft & A. T. J. Kersey Theory of Machines viii. 208 Any sudden shock would cause the belt to vibrate and slip, and would thus reduce the shock on the driven pulley or machine.
1960 Guardian 26 Apr. 10/2 In the process of tearing the belt away from the pulley, the surface of the belt will be damaged.
2011 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 4 Sept. (Late ed.) (Automobiles section) 1 Power is transmitted to a rubber belt that drives the rear wheel.
b. Originally U.S. A band of material driven round by the wheels, rollers, etc., over which it runs so as to present a continuous moving surface, such as on a conveyor belt, running machine, or belt sander. Hence also: a piece of industrial machinery featuring such a belt; a conveyor belt.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > belt
apron1835
belt conveyor1877
conveyor belt1906
belt1908
1908 Engin. Mag. (N.Y.) Dec. 440 The original belt conveyor consisted of a very wide belt running on straight idlers and carrying a small amount of material distributed along the middle.
1938 Reader's Digest Jan. 123/2 Automobiles leaving the belt as finished products.
1978 J. Zegel Fast Furnit. i. 33/1 A belt sander carries a belt of sandpaper that rides around two drums in much the same way the driving ‘track’ moves on a bulldozer or an army tank.
1992 M. A. Stackpole Nat. Select. xviii. 155 He flopped to the ground and the treadmill's belt whipped him back, dumping him on the floor in a shaking heap.
2015 Farmers Weekly (Nexis) 16 Jan. Cups on the belt take the grapes to the top of the machine, then on to transfer conveyors.
13. A flexible strip of ammunition by means of which cartridges are fed into a machine gun in rapid succession.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > cartridge > strip or belt
belt1884
feed-strip1902
1884 Times 22 Sept. 6/3 As the gun is fired the belt is drawn into it on one side, and one after another the cartridges are drawn out of the belt.
1902 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 406/1 A belt of cartridges..has been placed on the feed-wheel.
1914 Scotsman 26 Sept. 5/6 The belt of the gun [sc. a Maxim] was still charged.
2016 Gympie (Queensland) Times (Nexis) 15 Jan. 2 Their .50 calibre machine gun ammo belts measured 27 feet.

Phrases

†P1. belt of paternosters (or Our Fathers): a certain number of Our Fathers recited consecutively as a devotion; a studded belt, string of beads, or similar item used for keeping count when reciting this set of prayers. historical. Obsolete. [This use originated as a mistranslation by H. Spelman (see quot. 1664) of the passage in quot. OE, in which Old English æt VII beltidum , lit. ‘at the seven bell-times’, is apparently intended to gloss post-classical Latin canonicis horis , lit. ‘at the canonical hours’. In what N.E.D. (1887) described as ‘one of the most grotesque blunders on record’, Spelman misinterpreted Old English beltīdum (dative plural of beltīd canonical hour (marked by the ringing of a bell), lit. ‘bell-time’; < bell n.1 + tide n.) as a Latin inflection of a putative word related to belt n.1, and construed it with the following Pater Noster as ‘a paternoster of seven belts’, which he explained as a rosary.]
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society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > the Lord's Prayer > repetition of > frequent
belt of paternosters (or Our Fathers)1720
OE Acts Council of Chelsea in A. W. Haddan & W. Stubbs Councils & Eccl. Documents (1871) III. 584 Et xxx diebus canonicis horis expleto synaxeos æt vii beltidum Pater Noster pro eo cantetur.
1664 H. Spelman Glossarium 79/1 Beltis,... Rosarium.]
1720 J. Johnson Coll. Eccl. Laws Church of Eng. I. sig. Q3 When the Canonical Hours are finish'd.., let seven Belts of Pater-Nosters also, be sung for him. [Note] VII Beltidum Pater Noster: This seems to imply, that they had, in this Age, a certain Number of Studs fastened into their Belts, or Girdles, which were then us'd..for the numbring of their Prayers.
1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) II. ix. 69 The frequent repetition of the Lord's prayer, technically called a belt of Pater-nosters. [Note] A belt of Pater-nosters appears to correspond with a string of beads of later times... It is probable that the belt contained fifty Pater-nosters.
1852 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. i. viii. 8 After the canonical hours of the public service were over, seven ‘belts’ of Our Fathers had to be sung for the deceased.
1899 Reliquary Jan. 102 According to the evidence afforded by the wills and testamentary dispositions of the times the common English name for the beads was a ‘pair a beads,’ or a ‘belt of paternosters.’
P2. colloquial. under one's (also the) belt.
a. Of food or drink, esp. alcohol: swallowed, consumed; in one's stomach.
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the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > stomach or belly > [adverb]
stomachically1684
under one's (also the) belt1771
intragastrically1959
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 122 He was carried home with six good bottles of claret under his belt.
1839 Spirit of Times 21 Dec. 498/3 Away we went, each bearing, under his belt, his full share of the antifogmatical..compound.
1882 Washington Post 25 July [He] goes out and puts another quart of whisky under his belt, and, going home, he falls off his horse.
1961 B. Crump Hang on a Minute Mate 45 A man working as hard as they were couldn't be expected to keep going without a feed under his belt.
1965 R. Jeffries Dead against Lawyers vii. 69 Two whiskies under the belt are better than one.
2002 R. Rankin Hollow Chocolate Bunnies Apocalypse xxiii. 256 You'd need a few stiff ones under your belt before you got going with saving the world.
b. Originally U.S. Safely or satisfactorily achieved, acquired, or experienced.In early use chiefly of racehorses or athletes.
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1898 Boston Globe 10 Oct. 9/1 Charley Herr was the favorite, but he had too many races under his belt to be on edge for this his richest engagement of the year.
1911 N.Y. Times 29 May 10/3 It is my idea that the Cornellian can, under the climatic and track conditions which prevailed last Saturday, and without a previous race under his belt, go to the tape in a half-mile race close to 1:51.
1920 E. Hemingway Let. 16 Sept. in Sel. Lett. (1981) 39 Dempsey..has never had a real fight yet, Geo. [= Georges Carpentier] has a pile of them under his belt.
1954 Manch. Guardian Weekly 12 Aug. 12 His wife had 135,000 miles driving in the States under her belt..but was still failed.
1962 J. Wain Strike Father Dead v. 216 He wanted me to get plenty of Latin and Greek under the belt so that I could be like him.
2004 Media Week 4 May 19/6 It's good to get extra qualifications under your belt.
P3. to tighten (also pull in, draw in) one's belt.Cf. belt-tightener n. 2, belt-tightening n. 1, belt-tightening adj. 2.
a. To pull in one’s belt tightly when buckling or tying it and so compress the stomach, esp. as a means of staving off or bearing hunger pangs. Later also: figurative to stave off, bear, or put up with hunger pangs (sometimes with allusion to literally tightening the belt for this purpose).In later use sometimes overlapping with sense Phrases 3b.
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the world > food and drink > food > consumption of food or drink > appetite > hunger > be hungry [verb (intransitive)] > stave off hunger
to tighten one's belt1824
1824 L. M. Child Hobomok iv. 41 Corbitant, too, threw his quiver over his shoulder, and tightened his belt, as if preparing for a journey.
1841 Chartist Circular 27 Feb. 329/3 ‘The camels endure hunger longer than I have,’ said the tanner, ‘let me draw my girdle closer.’ He tightened his belt.
1876 W. Besant & J. Rice Golden Butterfly I. Prol. 1 This pilgrim has tightened his belt to stave off the gnawing at his stomach.
1891 R. Kipling Amir's Homily in Life's Handicap 290 I also was once starved, and tightened my belt on the sharp belly-pinch.
1907 C. E. Mulford Bar-20 v. 46 They's three things that's good for famine... Yu can pull in your belt, yu can drink, an' yu can eat.
1919 H. W. Lanier in L. P. Powell Social Unrest II. i. 382 We in Italy are accustomed to rationing... If we cannot get what we need from America, we shall draw in our belts still tighter.
2009 R. C. Wilson Julian Comstock iv. iv. 277 Given our numbers, and the accounted supplies, Julian calculates that we'll be tightening our belts by mid-month, and thoroughly starved by December.
b. To reduce one's expenditure; to introduce (rigorous) economies; to economize.Now the main sense.
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society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > moderation or reduction in expenditure > spend money sparingly [verb (intransitive)] > reduce expenditure
retrench1663
economize1780
to tighten one's belt1902
to draw in (also shrink, pluck, pull in) one's horns1920
1902 Sheffield Daily Tel. 16 Dec. 4/4 Year by year the War Office has tightened its belt and required more work from the body.
1944 Food for Thought Nov. 46/1 All of us have to pull in our belts to pay for the war.
1981 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 30 Sept. (Late City Final ed.) a31/1 President Reagan made it clear from the start that Americans would have to tighten their belts and make sacrifices.
2014 London Evening Standard 9 Oct. (West End Final ed.) 56/2 [Housing] associations have tightened their belts, become a lot more efficient,..worked hard to develop alternative sources of finance.
P4. belt and braces (originally and chiefly British). Later also belt and suspenders (North American). Chiefly attributive.
a. Of an action, approach, etc.: that involves two or more precautionary measures or means to a desired end in order to decrease the likelihood of mishap; very or excessively cautious.
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1955 R. Macintosh & M. Ostlere Local Analgesia Head & Neck xvii. 131 On the ‘belt and braces’ principle additional injections can be made along the line of the individual nerves.
1964 T. W. McRae Impact Computers on Accounting (1965) vi. 187 Magnetic tape units and card input units are usually fitted with some type of ‘belt and braces’ service which reads the tape or the card twice and compares the results for quality.
1995 J. W. Bartlett Equity Finance (ed. 2) I. iv. 64 The ultimate ‘belt and suspenders’ approach includes the practice of executing a contract between the corporation and each director.
2002 Digital Photogr. made Easy No. 12. 64/4 Oddly, the manual is also on a CD, which seems a bit belt and braces.
b. Of a person: that habitually takes extra precautionary measures or employs more than one means to a desired end in order to decrease the likelihood of mishap; very or excessively cautious.
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1971 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 15 May 397/1 A pessimist may be a belt-and-braces man but an optimist is a Parliamentary candidate.
1997 M. Martin & T. Jackson Personnel Pract. viii. 137 Fire and sabotage can be covered by using a fireproof safe for back-ups or by an off-site back-up..at another location. If you are a ‘belt and braces’ person you will do both!
1998 R. Anderson in M. Powell God Off-Broadway Introd. p. ix I wanted to be a playwright. But, being a ‘belt and suspenders man’, I had felt that I should have some other way of earning a living..just in case.
2005 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 16 June 14 I'm a belt and braces man—have two smoke alarms, a fire blanket and a fire extinguisher. Better safe than sorry.

Compounds

C1.
a.
(a) General attributive (chiefly in senses 1 and 12), as belt leather, belt width, etc.Some of the more established compounds of this type are treated separately.Attested earliest as a surname.
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1334 Patent Roll, 8 Edward III, Part 1 (P.R.O.: C 66/183) m. 31 Willelmo le Beltewryght.
1833 Documents Relative to Manuf. in U.S. (House of Representatives) I. Doc. No. 308, 830 800 pounds remnants of belt leather, at 10 cents per pound.
1883 R. H. Thurston Materials of Engin. I. vi. 286 In joining belt ends, the belt is pulled taut.
1893 Brotherhood Locomotive Engineers Monthly Jrnl. Mar. 246/1 Worth gives a costume that has a jetted girdle, which, instead of terminating in the two-pointed shape, or the narrow belt width with rosette,..comes down to belt width, but has a long lapel of bead work hanging from it at the back.
1939 R. Graumont & J. J. Hensel Encycl. Knots & Fancy Rope Work 342/2 A striking example of color weaving is shown in this belt design.
1988 J. Fruchtbaum Bulk Materials Handling Handbk. ii. 30/2 Initial loading of the belt should be in gradual steps, with the belt alignment checked during each step, until the ultimate loading is reached.
2013 F. Lamb Industr. Automation iv. 166 Belt materials are often chosen based on strength requirements or load, the amount of friction required, and the environment that they are exposed to.
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belt buckle n.
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1700 Adventure for Parcel of Plate (single sheet) One Large Belt Buckle seet [sic] with stones.
1825 Times 7 Mar. A belt buckle in gold and crystal.
1935 W. Faulkner Pylon 7 Beltbuckles and cufflinks and handkerchiefs.
2004 New Yorker 18 Oct. 56/3 He was wearing a wide-striped Oxford shirt and new black Carhartt pants, with a big belt buckle.
belt clasp n.
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1714 E. Harrold Diary 2 June (2008) 103 Lost my belt clasp on ye road.
1883 J. Anderson Scotl. in Pagan Times: Iron Age i. 55 An agrafe or belt-clasp of bronze or brass.
1908 C. Mijatovich Servia & Servians iii. 67 I should like to sell these silver belt-clasps, if I could get a fair price for them.
2005 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 6 July b6 Rhinestone beaded belt clasps, chunky jewels,..and bracelets with feathers, turquoise and lots of beadwork.
belt coupling n.
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1855 U.S. Patent 13,843 1/1 Be it known that I, Thomas H. Corbett, of Brooklyn.., have invented a new and useful Belt-Coupling.
1991 Artific. Intelligence in Engin. 6 138 Geometric constraints (e.g., gear-meshing, belt-coupling, cross-belt-coupling..etc.)—they are preconditions.
belt speed n.
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1879 Brit. Mail 3 June 464/3 The belt-speed, which is rather high, is thus reduced 20 to 1.
1981 Mining Jrnl. (Nexis) 2 Jan. 5 The rated capacity of the 915mm wide belt system will be 850 t/h at a belt speed of 3.56 m/s.
2013 Herbert River (Austral.) Express (Nexis) 5 June (Features section) 9 The Fichera brothers believed an adjustment was needed so the belt speed could be kept constant.
belt strength n.
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1883 J. H. Cooper Treat. Use of Belting in Transmission of Power (ed. 2) Pref. On page ix of the Introduction, I have given an outline of reliable data for the guidance of the practical engineer who wishes to have knowledge of a fair average of belt strength.
1919 Belting 20 Dec. 43/1 Too much belt strength is lost in this manner and the holes should be smaller.
2002 Courier Mail (Queensland, Austral.) (Nexis) 24 Aug. 3 Even a small tear reduces belt strength by up to 60 per cent.
belt tension n.
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1877 W. C. Unwin Elem. Machine Design x. 215 When belts run at high speeds, part of the belt tension is expended in deviating the belt as it passes over the curved surface of the pulley.
1969 E. P. Anderson Home Appliance Servicing (ed. 2) xvi. 258 If the pulley ratio requires excessive belt tension, it must be changed.
2016 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 3 Sept. (Metro ed.) (Motoring section) 1 Both engines also have a tensioner to maintain proper belt tension.
belt thickness n.
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1877 W. C. Unwin Elem. Machine Design x. 223 The diameter of the smaller of two pulleys should not be less than about 18 times the belt thickness.
1915 Marine Engineer & Naval Architect Jan. 170/2 The belt thickness of the Iron Duke is..12 in. against the 14 in. of the König.
2007 Absolute Sound 172 112/1 How do minute variations in belt thickness affect the speed stability of 20 pounds of rotating mass?
belt tightness n.
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1888 J. H. Cooper Treat. Use of Belting for Transmission Power (ed. 3) 382 Journal friction is increased by belt tightness, which is unnecessary under right proportions of driving capacity.
1985 Toronto Star (Nexis) 23 Dec. (Final ed.) b7 Checking belt tightness and applying belt dressing compound should be part of your regular maintenance procedure.
2000 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 20 Jan. (Final ed.) (Overdrive section) 2 Seatbelt pretensioners that automatically adjust belt tightness according to the severity of a crash.
b. Objective (chiefly in senses 1 and 12), as belt maker, belt splicing, etc.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of other articles > [noun] > of other specific finished articles
anchorsmith1296
paliser1315
sheather1379
buckler-maker1415
barrow-maker1468
chess-maker1481
belt maker1483
leg-makera1500
reel-makera1500
card maker1511
lattice-maker1550
pale cleaver1578
bead-maker1580
boss-maker1580
balloonier1598
bilbo-smith1632
block-makera1687
pen-makera1703
pipe-maker1766
platemaker1772
stickman1786
safe maker?1789
matchmaker1833
chipmaker1836
labelmaker1844
bandagist1859
hurdler1874
moon cutter1883
tie-maker1901
1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 27 A Belte maker, zonarius.
1679 Tryals Sir G. Wakeman, W. Marshall, W. Rumley, & J. Corker 44 Mr. Cott a Beltmaker in the New Exchange.
1795 Morning Chron. 11 July Yesterday Mr. Prosser..was appointed Sword-cutler and Belt-maker to his Majesty.
1893 Railway Rev. 23 Sept. 580/2 The company manufactures belt stretchers of neat and convenient design for use in lacing belts.
1960 Guardian 26 Apr. 10/2 Belt speeds tend to increase with every machine improvement or advance in belt manufacturing technique.
1961 Times 5 July 8/6 Foster, a belt cutter, of Harley Street, Marylebone, admitted obstructing Inspector Gardner in the execution of his duty.
2014 Mining Mag. (Nexis) Nov. 28 Belt splicing, for example, requires a specialised crew.
C2. attributive, designating a holster, pouch, purse, etc., incorporated in or designed to be attached to a belt.
belt case n.
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1865 New Haven (Connecticut) Daily Palladium 16 Sept. I proceeded to re-load my revolver, which I had placed in its belt-case.
1920 Fur News & Outdoor World Nov. 28/3 I have a belt case made of stiff sole leather.
2010 USA Today (Nexis) 20 May (Final ed.) 1 a He slipped into a quiet courtyard, popped his cellphone from a belt case and traced his finger down a list of phone numbers.
belt holster n.
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1863 N. Amer. & U.S. Gaz. 18 Nov. The cartridge boxes, belt-holster, and cap-pouch, [are to be] of best Oak-tanned Leather.
1915 Condor 17 227 A light and handy weapon, easily carried in a belt holster.
2011 Australian (Nexis) 20 Oct. 10 Another person could have grabbed the pistol from her belt holster.
belt pocket n.
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1870 Harper's Bazar 18 June 388/2 This belt pocket, which is intended to hold money and small articles, is made of brown enameled cloth.
1908 Jrnl. Mil. Service Inst. U.S. 43 245 It would seem advisable for regimental commanders to prescribe which belt-pockets shall be for the reserve or ‘emergency’ ammunition.
2015 Nation (Thailand) (Nexis) 9 Dec. A headset cable connected to my phone in a belt pocket.
belt pouch n.
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1859 Cheshire Observer 26 Feb. 4/4 The waiter..observed the defendant..place it [sc. the change] in his belt pouch.
1915 Recreation May 278 Two such cameras I spilled successively from the breast pocket of my shirt into the water..and ruined them before I hit upon the belt pouch.
2011 Independent on Sat. (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 24 Dec. 10 Don't keep your cellphone in a belt pouch or in your pocket.
belt purse n.
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1877 Georgia Weekly Tel. 16 Jan. 5 dozen pocket books, 4 dozen belts,..2 dozen belt purses, 3 dozen spectacles.
1916 H. M. Rideout Far Cry xiii. 171 He studied curiously the face of a peso, stamped with Mayon's broken mountain-top; then slipped the whole tribute quietly into his belt-purse.
2004 Windsor (Ont.) Star (Nexis) 2 Oct. f7 I want to come up with a line of belt purses that are perfect for travel.
belt scabbard n.
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1882 Union Jack 18 May 521/2 He flung aside his belt scabbard.
1909 Outing Mag. Jan. 504/2 A longer gun did not carry so well in the saddle, since the cantle might cause it to work up or fall out of the belt-scabbard.
2006 Press (Christchurch, N.Z.) (Nexis) 13 Sept. 13 Armed with a machete in a belt scabbard, a diver's knife and another knife.
belt sheath n.
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1870 Liverpool Mercury 22 Jan. 8/6 Bennett's knife fell from his belt-sheath during the struggle.
1921 Amer. Artisan & Hardware Rec. 28 May 21/2 There's a very practical little tool for fishermen and campers in a little hand axe, fitted with a leather belt sheath.
2011 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 23 Dec. One knife in his hand and another in a belt sheath.
belt wallet n.
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1907 University Mag. (Montreal) Apr. 317 I taught him [sc. a horse] to take a lump of sugar from under the flap of my belt wallet.
1922 N.Y. Times Mag. 5 Nov. 1/2 An enormous haul of rifles, revolvers, ammunition,..belt wallets, holsters, compasses and bombs was effected.
2007 Daily Star (Nexis) 7 Jan. 38 Keep your money close to you at all times—belt wallets are great.
C3.
belt armour n. now chiefly historical a layer of thick metal armour plating fitted around the outside or (less commonly) inside of the hull of a warship, typically extending from the main deck down to below the waterline; cf. sense 4.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > [noun] > sheathing > armour-plating
belting1567
armour plate1683
belt1822
armour1838
armour plating1860
cuirass1860
belt armour1866
water-line armour1884
glacis plate1889
1866 Times 11 May 6/5 A box with a water-line belt, increasing at the same time the thickness of the box and belt armour.
1934 Scotsman 24 Oct. 10/7 The Sverige's belt armour varies from 3 inch to 8 inch.
2014 Jrnl. (Newcastle) (Nexis) 18 Dec. (Features section) 19 The belt armour on the Germans' hulls rendered them safe from the six-inch rounds.
belt bag n. a small bag incorporated in or designed to be attached to a belt; cf. bum bag n. (b) at bum n.1 and int.2 Compounds 2.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > on belt, worn at back
bum bag1860
belt bag1872
belt pack1939
fanny pack1957
fanny belt1963
1872 Cleveland (Ohio) Morning Daily Herald 17 Sept. (advt.) New Morocco belts... New belt bags.
1953 Oakland (Calif.) Tribune 2 Dec. 28 e/4 (advt.) Our ski-happy winter sports buyer Dick DeMotte planned this avalanche of values because we iced him for purchasing too many Reindeer belt bags.
2001 N.Y. Times 3 June ix. 3/2 Gucci's belt bag, a logoed version of the fanny pack usually seen around the waists of train conductors and tourists.
belt beating n. a beating administered with a belt; cf. belting n. 2b.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [noun] > beating > instance of
threshingOE
fustigation1428
breeching1520
trouncingc1550
bace1575
firking1594
belting1602
knave's grease1602
oil of baston1604
oil of birch1604
oil of hazel1604
oil of holly1604
oil of whip1604
lamb-pie1607
lamming1611
drubbing1650
vapulation1656
warming1681
floggation1688
working over1695
cullis1719
thrashing1720
halberd1756
licking1756
dressing1769
leathering1790
nointing1794
dusting1799
teasing1807
hiding1809
whopping1812
thrumming1823
toco1823
flaking1829
teaser1832
lathering1835
welting1840
pasting1851
towelling1851
whaling1852
hickory oil1855
swishing1859
slating1860
going-over1881
six of the best1912
belt beating1928
ass-kicking1943
stomping1958
seeing to1968
butt-kicking1970
1928 Chicago Defender 28 July 3/5 (headline) Child dies from brutal belt beating.
1978 R. Inglis Sins of Fathers vii. 114 In these older children.., a teacher is likely to uncover ‘sins of the fathers’ of a different kind: incest, belt beatings..with frequent injustices wrought by step-parents.
2006 G. Duncan Bloodstone Papers x. 187 The cuts from the belt beating hurt.
belt clip n. a clip by which an object can be attached to a person's belt.
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1896 Sci. Amer. 9 May 301/3 Designs. Belt clip... Bottle stopper... Fastening tab.
1918 Red Cross Mag. Feb. 2/1 Fitted with a hinged belt clip, so that it may..be clipped securely on the belt.
2011 K. C. Tate Cherished xxx. 263 He pulled his cell phone from his belt clip and called 911.
belt colour n. the colour of a belt; esp. (in judo, karate, and certain other martial arts) the colour of a belt as an indicator of the level of proficiency attained by the wearer, or the rank represented by this (see sense 2c).
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1936 Amer. Legion Monthly Dec. 1/1 (advt.) In ordering be sure to specify belt color and size and three initials.
1989 S. Filson Nightwalker ix. 188 The rings filled with competitors arranged by belt color and who sat cross-legged on the floor.
2015 Harrow Times (Nexis) 31 Dec. Nirmay Jadhav, who trains at Shotokan Karate Club,..was awarded the highest belt colour possible.
belt conveyor n. a conveyor belt; cf. sense 12b.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > conveyor > [noun] > belt
apron1835
belt conveyor1877
conveyor belt1906
belt1908
1877 Specif. & Drawings of Patents (U.S. Patent Office) 9 Mar. 418/1 Power to drive the said belt-conveyor may be applied to either of the pulleys.
1908 Engin. Mag. Dec. 440 The original belt conveyor consisted of a very wide belt running on straight idlers and carrying a small amount of material distributed along the middle.
2016 BBC Monitoring Asia Pacific (Nexis) 22 Apr. Coal mines in the western area of the country developed new pits..and furnished them with belt-conveyor, winch and all other kinds of equipment.
belt course n. Masonry a course or band of stone or brick slightly projecting or (less commonly) indented from the surface of a wall, or consisting of a different kind of masonry to the surrounding courses; a string course.In the walls of buildings courses of this type are often set in line with sills or floor-levels.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > moulding > string-course or -moulding
curstable1278
tablec1400
ledgement1435
wreath1677
cordon1706
tablette1723
belt1730
string1809
string-course1825
belt course1830
tablet1830
string-moulding1833
rope border1855
stringing course1861
racecourse1883
1830 Boston Courier 27 Dec. Mr. Benton, one of the mechanics employed at the New Court House,..while walking on the upper or belt course of marble, fell a distance of more than forty feet.
1908 Carpentry & Building Nov. 364/1 If..a portico, door hood or window cap is being built which does not form part of a continuous cornice or belt course..the stock molding may be used for the inclined portions.
2002 R. G. Wilson Buildings of Virginia 88/1 The lack of a water table and belt courses betrays the date of this elegant five-bay Georgian house.
belt decoration n. (originally) the decoration of a belt; (later chiefly) a decoration or ornament forming part of, or worn on, a belt, esp. one which is an archaeological artefact.
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1881 Rural New-Yorker 20 Aug. 554/2 One of the novelties in belt decoration is the fancy for large bows worn directly in front or a little to one side of the belt.
1886 D. G. Brinton tr. G. K. C. Gerland in tr. K. G. von Berneck et al. Iconogr. Encycl. Arts & Sci. I. Pl. 77 (caption) Belt decorations, of the Koryaks.
1942 ‘C. Dick’ Fun for Boys & Girls 69 The easiest things to use for belt decorations are paper clips of various kinds.
1953 J. S. Stewart Folk Arts of Norway 136 Belt plates might be hammered or engraved... They could be round like the maler, but the type really designed for belt decoration was rectangular.
2002 Leicester Mercury (Nexis) 31 Jan. 14 Items discovered at Welby include axes, a cup, the handle fixings for a cauldron, a spearhead, belt decorations and even a sword.
belt deterioration n. the gradual deterioration or wearing out of a machine belt through use; = belt wear n.
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1912 Iron Age 4 July 26/1 Abrasive wear due to slippage or sliding of the material on the belt, etc., is the chief cause of belt deterioration.
1977 Pop. Sci. June 158/1 A solvent or degreaser will hasten belt deterioration and cause premature breakage.
2009 M. J. Jackson & J. Morrell Machining with Nanomaterials iv. 156 There are disadvantages which include..belt deterioration due to stretching.
belt drive n. a driving mechanism in which motion and power are transmitted by a flexible continuous belt (see sense 12a); the use of a driving mechanism of this type.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > [noun] > driving mechanism
belt1795
drive belt1860
driveshaft1860
belt-driving1875
belt drive1884
drive1892
1884 North-eastern Daily Gaz. (Middlesbrough) 26 June He said that he preferred a belt drive to any other.
1934 Discovery Nov. 324/2 Two-stroke petrol engine, connected by belt-drive to a 200 watt alternator.
1941 A. C. Davies Sci. & Pract. Welding iv. 238 Direct drive is mostly favoured for welding generators. Belt drive is not very satisfactory, owing to the rapid application of the load when striking the arc causing slip and putting a great strain on the belt.
2016 Farmers Weekly (Nexis) 25 June There is a belt drive off the main gearbox to power the large-diameter auger.
belt-driven adj. operating by means of a flexible continuous belt that transmits motion and power from one component to another; acted on by such a belt; cf. belted adj. 5.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > [adjective] > driving mechanism
clockwork1764
belted1868
belt-driven1883
1883 Glasgow Herald 2 Aug. 8/4 Punching and Shearing Machine... Belt driven.
1893 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 5 May 622/1 Seventeen dynamos, all belt-driven.
1965 Pop. Sci. Oct. 138/1 You can mount the blades directly on the crankshaft, but a separate, belt-driven shaft for the blades is better.
2015 Independent (Nexis) 22 Sept. A belt-driven starter-generator assisting the 1.2-litre petrol engine.
belt-driving (a) n. the transmission of motion and power by means of a flexible continuous belt (see sense 12a); (b) adj. (of a wheel, roller, etc.) that drives a belt; (of a machine, motor, etc.) operating by means of a continuous flexible belt that transmits motion and power from one component to another (cf. belt-driven adj.).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > [noun] > driving mechanism
belt1795
drive belt1860
driveshaft1860
belt-driving1875
belt drive1884
drive1892
1875 Aberdeen Jrnl. 15 Dec. 4/2 (advt.) 1 First-Class Corn Bruiser, with Cylinder, and Springs, and Frame, and gearing for belt-driving.
1878 Specif. & Drawings of Patents (U.S. Patent Office) 6 Aug. 150/1 A yoke which carries the shaft of a belt-driving wheel.
1902 H. Sturmey in A. C. Harmsworth et al. Motors & Motor-driving (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) x. 195 Belt-driving cars have usually two belts running on pulleys of different sizes.
1947 World Oil Oct. 120/2 The belt..is operated by a small gasoline engine mounted on the rear of the frame and beneath the large belt-driving roller.
1956 B. H. Tripp Renold Chains ii. 36 Something was required that avoided on the one hand the slip inseparable from belt-driving and on the other the limitations of centre distance of the gear drive.
2011 R. Isermann Fault-diagnosis Applic. ix. 222 The dynamic behaviour of the main drive..can therefore be modeled by a two-mass system with moments of inertia J1 (motor plus belt-driving pulley) and J2 (belt driven pulley, shaft, gear, spindle).
belt failure n. an instance of a machine belt breaking or slipping off the wheels, rollers, etc., over which it runs; mechanical failure of this type.
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1894 Trans. Amer. Soc. Mech. Engineers 15 245 The means of ‘securing the least possible interruption to manufacture’ by belt failures involves a position well taken by Mr. Taylor.
1978 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 23 Nov. The car lost its alternator, power steering and air conditioning at the same time because of belt failure.
2011 Age (Melbourne) (Nexis) 13 Aug. (Drive section) 32 Those in the trade recommend changing the belts every 50,000 kilometres or so..to avoid a belt failure that will toast the motor.
belt fastening n. (a) (originally) a fastening such as a lace or rivet for joining the ends of a machine belt together (cf. belt lacing n.); (later also) a buckle, clasp, etc., by which a belt is fastened, esp. one which is an archaeological artefact; (b) the action or practice of putting on or fastening a seat belt.
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1847 London Jrnl. Arts, Sci., & Manuf. 31 151 John Paterson, of 104, Wood-street, Cheapside, London, for a belt fastening.
1893 Industry Aug. 531 Want of flexure in the joint has been the main difficulty in maintaining belt fastenings.
1958 Joplin (Missouri) Globe 18 Apr. a4/7 Would you say you are ahead of Khrushchev in belt-fastening..on airplanes?
1970 Illustr. London News 21 Nov. (Suppl.) p. viii/4 A Brazilian topaz brooch which would double as a belt fastening.
2002 Brentwood Gaz. (Nexis) 7 Nov. 9 Part of an eighth century Saxon belt-fastening was found just west of the church.
2012 Sunday Times (Nexis) 26 Feb. (In Gear section) 3 When a rear door is opened the buckle rises 3in from the seat to facilitate belt fastening.
belt-fed adj. supplied or (occasionally) driven by means of a belt; esp. (of a machine gun) supplied with ammunition by means of a belt; cf. sense 12.
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1878 Amer. Machinist May 7/3 The stiff and powerful lathe..would beat the slender, highly polished, metal-stinted, belt-fed light carriage and small tool holder rival all to smash.
1917 Internat. Mil. Digest Nov. 599/1 The Vickers is a water-cooled, recoil operated, belt fed machine gun.
1980 Frederick (Maryland) Post 18 June b6/1 Two belt-fed mobile towers can load two ships simultaneously.
2010 S. Junger War i. i. 11 The 240 is a belt-fed machine gun that weighs almost thirty pounds.
belt feed n. a feed mechanism supplying something by means of a belt; spec. such a mechanism supplying ammunition to a machine gun.
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1874 Commissioners of Patents' Jrnl. 3 July 1823/1 In a wood-bundling machine, an endless belt-feed, carrying fagot-receptacles to..deliver the wood to the compressors.
1945 C. E. Balleisen Princ. Firearms vi. 60 The ratchet feed consists of the belt-feed slide (including the feeding pawl) and the belt-holding pawl.
1991 B. Sterling & J. Kessel Moral Bullet in B. Sterling Globalhead (1994) 189 He fumbles with the feed-cover, feeling for the ammunition belt... Luckily, the belt-feed is already engaged.
2004 S. Bull Encycl. Mil. Technol. & Innovation 50 A curved steel claw lever flipped the bolt back against a return spring, which operated the belt feed.
belt feeding adj. and n. (a) adj. (of a mechanism) that supplies something (esp. ammunition) by means of a belt; (of a machine gun) that is supplied with ammunition by means of a belt; (b) n. the process of supplying something (esp. ammunition) by means of a belt.
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1879 Specif. & Drawings of Patents (U.S. Patent Office) 3 June 101/1 In order to prevent the teeth of the feed-rollers catching.., the belt-feeding rollers and toothed cylinder should be moved away from such belt.
1884 Chambers's Jrnl. 25 Oct. 686/1 The same system of belt-feeding has been applied by Mr Maxim to ordinary rifles fired from the shoulder.
1920 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 20 Jan. 375/1 (caption) In a rifle, the combination of magazine-feeding mechanism, and belt-feeding mechanism adapted to be operated when said magazine-feeding mechanism is in inoperative position.
1951 G. M. Chinn Machine Gun I. iv. vii. 350/2 They [sc. the French authorities] specifically insisted that no means of belt feeding be revealed.
2002 Frederick (Maryland) News-Post 19 Dec. b14/4 The gangs are also often armed with rocket-propelled grenades and belt-feeding machineguns.
belt gun n. originally and chiefly North American a handgun designed to be worn on a belt.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun]
handgun1411
piece1575
small arms1685
popper1751
shooting-iron1775
pelter1827
squib1839
shooter1840
shooting-stick1845
Betsy1856
smoke-wagon1891
rod1903
gat1904
belt gun1905
roscoe1914
smoke-stick1927
heat1928
heater1929
smoke-pole1929
John Roscoe1932
1905 Recreation Aug. 164/1 We have rebounding locks and safeties galore, and yet to my way of viewing this matter, the absolutely perfect belt gun has yet to be manufactured.
1925 Forest & Stream Sept. 569/3 (advt.) Keeps their rifles and belt guns clean as a whistle.
2009 J. Ellroy Blood's a Rover (2010) xvi. 113 Dwight pulled off his belt gun and stuffed it under the seat.
belt hole n. (a) (in a mill, factory, etc.) a hole cut through a floor or wall for a belt connecting machines on different storeys or in different rooms (now historical and rare); (b) each of a series of holes along the strap of a belt for the tongue of the buckle; cf. belt notch n.In sense (b) frequently with allusion to a person's weight; cf. belt size n. 2b.
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1835 Mechanics' Mag. 28 Mar. 190/1 Very many make a very haggling piece of work in cutting belt holes.
1898 Denver Evening Post 17 July 12/6 For a man that..never fed on belt holes for dinner for a couple of days at a time.., you are putting more indigo into life than any fellow I ever knew.
1927 National Miller Apr. 27/2 The width of the belt hole may be determined by marking back from the belt lines on either side a distance sufficient to prevent the belt from striking the floor when it flaps or vibrates.
1983 Jrnl. Econ. Hist. 43 361 Shaft and belt holes in floors and walls were no longer needed.
2013 Australian (Nexis) 26 Aug. (Features section) 12 The more you run, the more you can eat and drink without needing extra belt holes.
belt hook n. (a) a hook used as a belt fastening, esp. one which is an archaeological artefact; (b) a hook by means of which an object can be attached to a person's belt.There is archaeological evidence for the use of hooks as belt fastenings in ancient China dating as far back as the 7th cent. b.c. and most of the examples found are highly ornate and made from precious materials such as gold, bronze, and jade. Evidence of the use of similar hooks among ancient Celtic peoples has also been discovered.
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1780 Acct. Anc. & Present State Birmingham (new ed.) p. xxxiii, in Birmingham Directory (new ed.) The productions of this opulent manufactory, were..nothing more than what was common to the surrounding artists; such as buttons,..belt-hooks, watch chains and trinkets.
1845 Bombay Times 30 Aug. 570/4 2 Pairs of Officers' Pistols with Orient metal barrels, side cocks, belt hooks and swivel rods.
1941 Art Bull. 23 323 These spatula-shaped belt-hooks constitute a rather small group, the majority of which are decorated with geometric patterns inlaid in gold, silver, and semi-precious stones.
1969 F. Wilkinson Antique Firearms iii. 44 Should a man wish to carry a pistol then it would have been either a pocket pistol or a larger pistol fitted with a belt hook.
1998 Amusement Business (Nexis) 14 Sept. 51 The Sip from the Hip bottle, a 32-ounce Betras USA plastic container and belt hook, with a long plastic straw.
2015 Daily Mail (Nexis) 2 Oct. Paired animals were thought to save you on the battlefield and are also found on scabbards and belt hooks.
† belt-ice n. Obsolete a long strip of sea ice, esp. one surrounding a land mass; = ice belt n. at ice n. Compounds 8.
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the world > the earth > water > ice > body of ice > [noun] > belt
belt-ice1856
1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. xlvii. 262 We followed the belt-ice, crossing only at the headlands of the bays, and arrived at the brig on the afternoon of Wednesday.
1878 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. Soc. N.Y. 10 295 I believe if the ‘Polaris’ could have been pushed through the belt-ice and the waters around, the pole could have been navigated.
belt knife n. (a) a knife worn on or tucked into a belt, typically for use as a weapon or hunting knife; (b) U.S. a cutting or splitting machine with a continuous serrated metal blade which runs at speed over rollers, used for splitting skins or for cutting leather, textiles, etc., into different thicknesses; (also) the continuous blade of such a machine.In sense (b) chiefly (and in earliest use) attributive.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > equipment for working with skins or leather > [noun] > other hide-working equipment
beaming-knife1530
scutching knife1688
bark-mill1749
otter-board1771
barkometer1821
belt knife1831
hide-worker1885
down-puller1971
society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > sharp weapon > side arms > knife or dagger > [noun] > types of
anlacec1300
misericord1324
bodkin1386
baselardc1390
popperc1390
wood-knife1426
spudc1440
pavade1477
bistoury1490
skene1527
dudgeon1548
sword dagger1567
machete1575
kris1589
bum dagger1596
stillado1607
stiletto1611
steelet1616
hanjar1621
pisaa1640
jockteleg1642
khanjar1684
bayonet1692
kuttar1696
parazonium1751
skene-ochles1754
scalping-knife1759
snick-a-snee1760
manchette1762
snickersnee1775
guard-dagger1786
boarding knife1807
scalp-knife1807
kukri1811
skene-dhu1811
parang1820
stylet1820
belt knife1831
bowie-knife1836
scalper1837
sheath-knife1837
toothpick1837
tumbok lada1839
snick-and-snee knife1843
tickler1844
bowie1846
toad-sticker1858
simi1860
scramasax1862
kinjal1863
left-hander1869
main gauche1869
aikuchi1875
tanto1885
toad-stabber1885
cinquedea1897
trench knife1898
puukko1925
panga1929
quillon dagger1950
flick-knife1957
ratchet knife1966
sai1973
ratchet1975
1831 Albion 6 Mar. 336/2 With his belt-knife, dull, and his strength almost gone, he sawed its blunt edge across the pirate's throat.
1869 Boston Daily Advertiser 8 Mar. About 19 rolls belt knife rough splits.
1895 Daily News 21 Mar. 5/7 They had not..so much as a belt knife.
1909 H. G. Bennett Manuf. Leather 279 There are three types of splitting machine, the ‘union’, the vibrating knife, and the band-knife (or belt-knife) machine.
1920 Shoe & Leather Reporter 20 May 81/2 Woburn has for a number of years been the home of the manufacturers of the band or belt knife for splitting machines.
1992 1990 Census of Population: Classified Index Industries & Occupations (U.S. Bureau of Census) o–145/2 Belt-knife feeder.
2010 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 25 June (Drive section) 27 The multitool has replaced the traditional belt knife for many bush travellers.
belt lacing n. thongs for lacing the ends of machine belts together, considered collectively; (also) a thong used for this purpose.
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1872 Hawaiian Gaz. 19 June 2, 3, and 4 inch English Leather Belting, and best Belt Lacing.
1883 R. H. Thurston Materials of Engin. I. vi. 286 Belt lacings are strips of sheepskin, about a half inch (1.27 cm) wide, and a yard (0.9 metre) or more in length.
1939 Hardware Age 6 Apr. 95/1 (advt.) Sometimes they just ask for some ‘metal belt lacing that can be put on with a hammer’.
2011 Farmers Weekly 20 May (Nexis) Inspect the belt lacings for sharp edges that can snag the net when it is running in the baler.
belt loop n. originally U.S. (a) a loop by which an object can be attached to a person's belt; (b) each of a number of loops of material sewn on to the waistband of a garment, through which a belt may be passed to hold it in place.
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1872 Infantry Equipm. (U.S. Army Ordnance Mem. No. 13) 15 The holster-body to be attached to the belt-loop by a brass swivel and stud.
1891 N.-Y. Times 24 July 8/7 (advt.) Men's best white Flannel Trousers, with belt loops, $5.50.
1944 Times 13 Apr. 1/6 Prismatic compass in leather case, belt loop and shoulder straps.
1969 Catal. J.C. Penney Fall–Winter 561 Slacks... Rugged corduroy fabric. Belt loops and cuffs.
1996 MW: Mod. Woman Feb. 40/1 This BodyGUARD personal alarm..has an ear-piercing 120-decibel alarm... Other features include a belt loop.
2016 Irish Independent (Nexis) 4 July The addition of concealed side pockets and nifty belt loops means they're functional too.
belt money n. †(a) (apparently) a gratuity given to soldiers (obsolete); (b) U.S. expenditure on the purchase, maintenance, or repair of machine belts (now rare).
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society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > [noun] > pay of troops > soldier's pay > additional > types of
conduct-money1512
conduct1644
belt money1648
riding money1668
batta1680
clearing1689
table money1705
field allowance1744
marching money1837
command allowance1860
command pay1875
1648 N. Ward To Parl. at Westm. 18 Is not Belt-money the dispendium of our possessions?
1918 Power Plant Engin. 15 Dec. 108/1 (advt.) If you are at all interested in saving belt money you should take advantage of our trial offer.
1922 Wood-worker July 95/1 (advt.) It [sc. Stephenson Red Label dressing] stops slip,..reduces bearing tension and saves much fuel and belt money.
1950 Constr. Methods & Equipm. Dec. 18 (advt.) Bull Dog V-Belts give you more for your belt money in trouble-free service, less slippage and savings through longer life.
belt notch n. each of a series of holes along the strap of a belt for the tongue of the buckle; cf. belt hole n. (b).Frequently with allusion to a person's weight; cf. belt size n. 2b.
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1913 State (Columbia, S. Carolina) 7 Apr. 4/1 We know of few joys in the world greater than letting out a couple of belt notches after a typical Columbia dinner.
1957 Air Line Pilot Oct. 6/1 Golf courses are longer. Steps are steeper. Last year's belt notch is too snug.
2016 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 9 Nov. (Taste section) 32 The cooking is always authentic and a lighter hand allows for comfortable feasting, without easing too many belt notches on the way home.
belt pack n. (a) a small bag incorporated in or designed to be attached to a belt; = belt bag n. (b) an electronic device designed to be worn on a belt or otherwise attached to clothing at waist level; spec. a radio transmitter and/or receiver used to relay audio, as in a wireless microphone system.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > on belt, worn at back
bum bag1860
belt bag1872
belt pack1939
fanny pack1957
fanny belt1963
1939 Lowell (Mass.) Sun 15 Dec. 5 (advt.) Ski Outfits... Belt Packs $3.50 and $3.95.
1989 C. Hiaasen Skin Tight (1990) xxx. 325 He checked the mike and the cables and the belt pack and the battery levels.
1997 J. La Tourette Wildlife Watcher's Handbk. v. 98 If your nature hike is fairly short, you might even want to skip the day pack and opt for a belt pack.
2008 D. Matthews Special Event Production: Resources iii. 124 The microphone is connected to the belt-pack via a small, thin wire.
2013 New Yorker 21 Oct. 70/3 He carried in his hand a tourist-style belt pack with his money and documents in it.
† belt-pipe n. Obsolete a steam-pipe surrounding the cylinder of a steam engine.
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1863 J. Hopkinson Working of Steam Engine Explained (ed. 4) 282 The exhaust steam passes..by a belt pipe round the cylinder, to the condenser.
1912 U.S. Patent 1,020,435 1/2 It will be seen that by the above construction, the usual belt pipes are dispensed with.
belt pistol n. now chiefly historical a pistol designed to be worn on a belt.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol > types of
dag1587
key gun1607
pocket pistol1612
key pistol1663
holster-pistol1679
troop pistol1688
horse pistol1704
screw-barrel1744
saddle pistol1764
air pistol1780
Wogdon1786
belt pistol1833
dueller1835
Colt1838
tickler1844
Derringer1853
cocking pistol1858
belt size1866
bulldozer1880
saloon pistol1899
Luger1904
Police Positive1905
Steyr1920
Saturday-night pistol1929
muff pistol1938
PPK1946
Makarov1958
Saturday-night special1959
puffer1963
snub nose1979
snubby1981
1833 Let. 10 Oct. in Daily National Intelligencer (Washington) (1834) 7 Feb. A heavy pair of belt pistols buckled around me.
1955 L. Winant Firearms Curiosa viii. 151 How the percussion cap belt pistol..operates may be seen at a glance.
2015 S. Fineman Blame Business ii. 37 Inventors rose to the occasion, advertising a range of anti-garrotting devices—belt pistols, anti-garrotte collars, and handheld weapons.
belt punch n. a tool for punching holes in a belt.
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1860 Sci. Amer. 4 Feb. 93/3 [Patent for] an Improved Belt Punch.
1913 Financial Times 24 Nov. 5/2 (advt.) Dunlop belt piercer and belt punch.
2001 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 7 Sept. 31 Punch a hole with a tool normally used as a belt punch.
belt revolver n. chiefly U.S. (now chiefly historical) a revolver designed to be worn on a belt.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > pistol > revolver > types of
six-shooter1844
five-shooter1848
belt revolver1853
six-shooting1858
pepperbox1861
service revolver1864
navy1867
six chamber1877
forty-five1881
pepper castor1889
hip revolver1897
six-gun1912
six chamber revolver1922
police special1935
thirty-two1942
thirty-eight1953
1853 Observer 8 Oct. 1/1 (advt.) Col. Colt is now ready to supply six-shot Army and Navy or Belt Revolver..in any quantity.
1905 Recreation Aug. 164/1 One would naturally suppose that a man looking for an ideal belt revolver would certainly be able to select one from the innumerable number of models, calibers, and styles of actions now on the market.
2005 M. Cumpston & J. Bates Percussion Pistols & Revolvers xix. 113 The New Belt Revolver of Enlarged Caliber featured a slim, round barrel eight inches in length.
belt sander n. originally U.S. a mechanical or electrical sander with a continuous belt of abrasive material which runs at speed over rollers; cf. belt sanding n.
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1892 Street Railway Jrnl. Apr. 222/1 A belt sander.
1903 Goshen (Indiana) Weekly News-Times 11 Sept. The Banta Furniture Co. and the Hawks Furniture Co. have each purchased an automatic belt sander for use in their factories.
1980 Village Squire Oct. 7/3 The Rosses rented a big belt sander and a small edger, and sanded the floors themselves.
2003 Routing Oct. 8/2 The new duo of Bosch belt sanders make light work of sanding large flat surfaces, shaping wood and removing stubborn materials.
belt sanding n. originally U.S. the action of sanding using a belt sander; frequently (and in earliest use) attributive, esp. in belt sanding machine.
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1892 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 17 Sept. 277/1 Goods Wanted at Home... 6 in. and 8 in. belt sanding machines.
1907 Wood Craft Nov. 53/3 The large and successful business of finishing wood by belt sanding.
1957 E. P. DeGarmo Materials & Processes in Manuf. xxxviii. 707 One of the common methods used to obtain smooth surfaces is by belt sanding.
1963 Hutchinson (Kansas) News 10 Nov. 28/6 1 lot of belt sanding paper, 1 lot of sanding discs.
2014 New Era (Windhoek) (Nexis) 9 July The donation includes a generator, concrete mixer and drain rods,..and a belt sanding machine.
belt saw n. a cutting machine with a continuous serrated metal blade which runs at speed over rollers; = bandsaw n. at band n.2 Compounds 2.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > saw > [noun] > power saws > other power saws
belt saw1819
chainsaw1846
butter1850
bandsaw1864
resaw1876
sabre saw1953
pendulum saw1958
1819 Niles' Weekly Reg. 27 Mar. 93/2 The Belt saw..is always revolving and always cutting at a regular rate.
1915 Scotsman 10 Apr. 15/7 The Plant, which consists of Long Bench and Five Saws, Band Saw and Belt Saw, Two Turning Lathes, Workmen's Caravan &c., is for Sale.
2012 Sunday Times (Ireland ed.) (Nexis) 5 Aug. (Sports section) 20 His parents finally relented and got him a belt saw and sander one Christmas.
belt-shifter n. a device for shifting a machine belt between pulleys.
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1841 U.S. Patent 2,328 1/2 F, Fig. 2, are similar pulleys inverse to the former connected by the belt c, to which..a belt shifteris affixed, and an index marked so as to show the increase or diminution of speed.
1920 National Safety News 26 July 12/2 While observing a mechanical belt shifter at Flint I noticed that it seemed to be very satisfactory in shifting from high to low.
2002 L. E. Gray From Ascending Rooms to Express Elevators i. 4 Pulling on the rope rotated the upper pulley and turned a crank that moved the belt shifter.
2012 Canad. Patent 2,762,953 2 It is..generally known to equip such upright vacuum cleaners with a belt shifter mechanism in order to allow one to selectively interrupt drive to the rotary agitator when desired.
belt slippage n. the action or fact of a machine belt slipping off the wheels, rollers, etc., over which it runs.
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1883 Encouragem. to Sorghum & Beet Sugar Industry (U.S. Dept. Agric.) 49 With a driving pully 42 inches in diameter, we had very little trouble in belt-slippage.
1913 Factory Oct. 334/3 Where belt slippage exists there is a loss of speed and consequently a loss of power.
2006 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. (Nexis) 29 Mar. 1 a Typically, conveyor belt fires are blamed on problems with belt slippage that causes sparks.
belt-speeder n. now rare (esp. in a spinning machine) a device consisting of two cone-pulleys carrying a belt, used to vary the speed at which power is transmitted.
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1824 Providence (Rhode Island) Patriot 10 Apr. One Belt Speeder of 24 spindles, of the latest and most approved plan.
1860 R. H. Baird Amer. Cotton Spinner 130 The speeders which give the twist to the rovings are the spindle and the fly, which move so slowly that the front rollers cannot be driven at more than one-third of the speed of the belt-speeder.
1945 U.S. Patent 2,376,262 1/1 The second gearing may be arranged to..be driven by motion derived from the driven cone-pulley of the belt-speeder.
† belt stead n. Obsolete that part of a person's body around which a belt is worn; the waist; cf. beltline n. 2a.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > [noun] > middle of trunk or waist
middleeOE
mideOE
girdlec1275
rondelc1300
girdlesteadc1330
waistc1386
belt steadc1540
girding-place1601
midriff1823
beltline1892
midsection1956
c1540 (?a1400) Gest Historiale Destr. Troy (2002) f. 92v Slit hym down sleghly thurghe the slote euyn Bode at þe belt stid and the buerne deghit.
1566 Actis & Constit. Scotl. f. xxxvv That all Erlis sall vse mantillis..furrit with quhyte lyning, and lynit befoir outwith ane hand braid to the belt steid.
belt strap n. a strap forming (part of) a belt, as on an item of clothing or equipment or in machinery; spec. the strap of a belt as an implement for administering corporal punishment.
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1849 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 10 i. 52 Another buckle and strap behind, a little below the belt-strap.
1856 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 19 148/1 It [sc. the cartridge-belt] is altered in size by one end of the belt-strap passing through the spring clasp, which fastens as a buckle.
1895 A. Jamieson Text-bk. Appl. Mech. I. viii. 149 The friction between the wood blocks and iron wheel is sufficient at ordinary speeds to balance the load without tightening the belt-strap.
1939 U.S. Patent 2,176,735 1/1 Shortening the distance from the fulcrum point to the screw hole of the belt strap, and consequently reducing the leverage on the belt at the screw hole.
1960 N.Y. Times 18 Dec. s14/1 (advt.) Hip boots $8.75 a pair... All vulcanized seams, slip resistant soles and heels, has adjustable belt straps.
1994 Himalayan Jrnl. 50 234 I was partially buried, but able to pull the snow away from my face, release the belt strap of my rucksack and breathe more easily.
2014 Atlanta Jrnl.-Constit. (Nexis) 2 Nov. 1 e To keep peace and avoid the sting of a belt strap, Linda always acquiesced.
† belt tram n. Obsolete rare a tram which runs on a line that encircles a city or urban area; cf. beltline n. 1.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > tramcar > types of
owl car1856
horse-car1864
bobtail car1875
bobtailed car1875
automobile1881
belt tram1894
toast-rack1905
short1914
1894 J. Dale Round the World by Doctors' Orders xiv. 333 The belt tram took us round the city, 8 miles.
belt wear n. the gradual deterioration or wearing out of a machine belt through use.
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1882 Amer. Machinist 23 Sept. 2/2 The same results in power could be obtained at 800 or 1,000 feet per minute..but this would be found to be unprofitable by reason of rapidly increased belt wear.
1982 World Coal July–Aug. Suppl. C32/1 When these ideals are not achieved, the result is excessive belt wear, spillage, pollution, and therefore, higher running costs.
2006 Rubber & Plastics News (Nexis) 16 Oct. 5 Double hinge rods with a unique profile to minimize cam-shafting, dramatically reducing wear in the hinge area, belt wear and changes in belt pitch.

Derivatives

ˈbelt-like adv. and adj. (a) adv. in the manner of a belt (somewhat rare); (b) adj. resembling a belt in function or appearance.
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1732 A. de la Mottraye Voyages ii. 73/2 The Knights wear it on the left shoulder Beltlike.
1735 B. Martin Philos. Gram. ii. iv. 128 Those Belt-like Appearances of Jupiter are supposed to adhere to, or be in the Surface of his Body.
1884 Amer. Naturalist 18 1235 The belt-like pieces under the wall are in connection with the other trophi..and frequently..bear a small piece..which proves them to be basal parts of the first maxillæ.
1912 Jrnl. Amer. Soc. Mech. Engineers Mar. 430 A much better way was to punch or turn out a rubber ring with a rectangular cross section, place it belt-like over two pulleys, and draw the pulleys apart.
1972 K. G. Heider in Oceania 42 187 The initiation costume for each boy was..a narrow strip of bark cloth tied belt-like around the waist.
2003 Evening Herald (Plymouth) (Nexis) 7 Nov. 38 A belt-like ring road that wraps the city centre away from its surroundings.
ˈbeltwise adv. now somewhat rare in the manner of a belt.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > clothing for body or trunk (and limbs) > [adverb]
a belefc1400
scarf-wise1581
jacket-wise1587
baldric-wise1590
foldedly1613
scarfways1653
beltwisea1667
polonaise-wise1888
toga-wise1902
stolewise1922
slinkily1935
a1667 P. Mundy Trav. (1925) IV. xxxv. 180 The Servitours with..silver ornamentts overthwartt their shoulders beltwise.
1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia iv. 198 A Lungy being tied loose over their Shoulders Belt-wise, and tucked between their Legs in nature of short Breeches.
1877 Boys of Eng. 23 Nov. 7/1 Dick proceeded to unwind a rope which he wore belt-wise round his waist.
1988 R. M. Gulrajani et al. in P. W. MacFarlane & T. D. Veitch Lawrie Comprehensive Electrocardiol. I. ix. 248 This system is extremely easy to implement since only three elastic straps..need to be worn beltwise across the thorax.
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† beltn.2

Forms: Middle English belte, late Middle English–1600s belt.
Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: beetle n.1
Etymology: Variant (with metathesis) of beetle n.1For similar cases of metathesis between l and a dental plosive (d or t ) in Old English and early Middle English compare e.g. seld n. (besides settle n.1), the β. forms at needle n., and the discussion of the etymology at bold n.
Obsolete.
An axe; (perhaps also) a mallet or beetle (beetle n.1 1a).
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society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > axe > [noun]
axec1000
belta1325
Douglas1900
a1325 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Arun.) (1857) 163 Le coing, the belte [a1333 BL Add. bolax, a1400 Paris ax, c1400 Harl. 490 bulax].
1341–2 in F. R. Chapman Sacrist Rolls Ely (1907) II. 118 In factura unius noue belte de ferro Dni.
1499 Promptorium Parvulorum (Pynson) sig. aviii/2 Belt or ax, securis.
c1500 Debate Carpenter's Tools in Rev. Eng. Stud. (1987) 38 456 ‘Wherfore,’ seyd þe belte, ‘With grete strokys I schall hym pelte.’
1592 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 97 A long sawe a belt a Rabbet a cutting saw two handsawes with other tooles.
1648 in D. Yaxley Researcher's Gloss. Hist. Documents E. Anglia (2003) 14 1 new belt to Rive wood wthall.
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† beltn.3

Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: belt v.
Etymology: Probably < belt v. (compare sense 6 at that entry). Compare earlier belt adj.
Obsolete.
A piece of soiled fleece clipped from around the tail of a sheep. Also (as a mass noun): a condition of sheep in which soiling of the wool around the tail with dung causes or exacerbates skin disease or infestation with maggots; cf. tag-belt n. at tag n.1 Compounds 2.Cf. belt adj., belt v. 6.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > wool > [noun] > type of > other
cot1471
wool1608
Lemster ore1610
belta1641
vigone1656
downright1749
stitchel1775
super1797
Saxony1842
lustre1894
snow-white1896
sixties-
a1641 J. Smyth Berkeley MSS (1883) I. 156 What money was yearly made by sale of the locks belts and tags of the sheep.
1697 A. S. Husbandman, Farmer, & Grasier's Compl. Instructor 71 For the Belt. To cure this, cut away the Tags, lay the Sore open, cast curious fine Mould on it, and lay on a Plaister of Tar [etc.].
1736 Compl. Family-piece iii. 425 Of the Tag or Belt in Sheep.
1749 W. Ellis Compl. Syst. Improvem. Sheep 351 Several of the ancient Authors call it the Belt, a Name for it which I never met with out of their Books.
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beltn.4

Brit. /bɛlt/, U.S. /bɛlt/
Forms: 1800s bilt (Scottish), 1800s– belt.
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: belt v.
Etymology: < belt v. (compare branch II. at that entry).With use with reference to a blow (see sense 1) compare earlier pelt n.2 Compare also belting n. 2b and belter n.1 1. With use with reference to music (see sense 3) compare earlier belting n. 2c.
1. colloquial (originally Scottish, Irish English, and U.S.). A heavy blow or stroke.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > striking with specific degree of force > [noun] > striking heavily > a heavy blow
smitea1200
ponder1339
clouta1400
whopc1440
routa1450
maul1481
sousec1500
dunta1522
flake1559
lambskin1573
lamback1592
daud1596
baster1600
mell1658
thumper1682
lounder1723
smash1725
plumper1756
spanker1772
douser1782
thud1787
bash1805
stave1819
batter1823
belter1823
wallop1823
whacker1823
belt1825
smasher1829
dingbat1843
dinger1845
oner1861
squeaker1877
clod1886
wham1923
dong1941
1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Bilt, a blow.
1853–9 T. Robinson Paddy's Fight with the No-Nothings An' I gav' a big ‘Yankee’ a belt in the gob.
1864 J. Haley in Rebel Yell & Yankee Hurrah (1985) 210 Some of our men have been treated to ‘a clout in the head’ or ‘a belt in the bog’, these being in vogue among the Milesians.
1899 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ Some Experiences Irish R.M. ix. 217 Will I give him [sc. the horse] a couple o' belts, your Honour?
1911 J. Masefield Everlasting Mercy 33 I'd like to hit the world a belt.
1927 Glasgow Herald 26 Aug. 11 [He] took three mighty belts at the ball.
1953 L. A. G. Strong Hill of Howth 68 He'd give Moo a belt in the puss.
2000 N. Griffiths Grits (2001) 269 Needser fuckin belt, ee does.
2. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.).
a. A gulp or swig of a drink, typically alcohol; esp. a shot of a spirit.
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1925 Dial. Notes 5 326 Belt,..drink.
1932 D. Runyon in Collier's Weekly 11 June 7/1 Charley figures that some of the G-guys may be tempted to take a belt or two at the merchandise [sc. spirits] they confiscate.
1967 Boston Sunday Herald 7 May iv. 3/5 Silins recalled the bottle of brandy his wife had tucked away in the sleeping quarters... They all had a belt of it by way of celebration.
1996 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 15 Aug. (South Pinellas ed.) 1 e The first order of business upon waking up: 26 percent go immediately to the lobby for a belt of coffee, 44 percent turn on the TV.
2007 S. Dunne Reaper (2009) xxix. 468 He wanted another belt of whisky.
b. A surge of pleasure, excitement, or euphoria, as from an intoxicant or stimulant; a thrill.
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the mind > emotion > excitement > pleasurable excitement > [noun] > thrill of
thrilla1680
dirl1787
stound1827
kick1899
jolly1905
drive1921
bang1931
belt1932
1932 D. Runyon in Collier's 31 Dec. 7/4 He always seems to be getting a great belt out of life.
1979 Washington Post 15 Mar. b15/2 I really got a belt out of it [sc. selling books]... It seemed like more of a game sometimes than a business.
1991 O. D. Brooks Legs 27 You'd a got a belt out of the look on the old geezer's kisser when I walked into his store.
2016 Times (Nexis) 30 Nov. 29 Mormons..get a belt out of Jesus that is every bit as real as the physical highs experienced by drinkers or drug-takers.
3. Music. An instance of the technique of belting (see belting n. 2c). Cf. earlier use in Compounds.
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1972 Chicago Tribune 24 Dec. xi. 5/4 Infectious songs whose delivery must be pure show-biz belt.
2013 L. Hass in A. F. Jahn Singer's Guide Compl. Health xxxii. 390 In belt the vocal folds are short, vibrating on a thick edge, and closed for about 60–70 percent of the cycle.
2016 M. Hoch & L. Lister Voice Secrets i. 13 While a true belt might be delivered in 100 percent chest voice..a female who uses a belt-mix is often capable of singing in a higher range.

Compounds

attributive. Music Characterized by or relating to the technique of belting (see belting n. 2c), as belt number, belt voice, etc.
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1965 Chicago Tribune 1 Sept. ii. 1/4 One pretty blonde starts to sing..and the director interrupts with..‘We need a belt number.’
1981 N.Y. Times 23 June c9/2 Miss Sultana's sound shared much in common with the ‘belt’ style of Western popular singing.
1991 J. Gavin Intimate Nights viii. 258 That girl could sing, I have to say—she had a big belt voice.
2016 M. Hoch & L. Lister Voice Secrets i. 13 A female who uses a belt-mix is often capable of singing in a higher range.
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† beltadj.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Etymon: belt v. 6
Etymology: Origin uncertain; related to belt n.3 Perhaps originally < belt v. 6, perhaps showing a contracted form of a past participle belted.
Obsolete. rare.
Of a sheep: having the area at the base of the tail diseased as a result of soiling of the wool with dung. Cf. belt n.3
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of sheep > [adjective] > other disorders of sheep
belt1614
tagged1614
spearworty1736
paterish1794
pothery1799
moor-sick1811
poked1828
respy1856
fly-struck1922
1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry iii. xvii. 74 A Sheepe is said to be tag'd or belt, when by a continuall squirt running out of his ordure, he berayeth his tayle, in such wise that through the heat of the dung it scaldeth, and breedeth the scabbe therein.
1753 Country Gentleman's Compan. I. 149 (heading) Of the tag'd or belt Sheep.
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beltv.

Brit. /bɛlt/, U.S. /bɛlt/
Forms: Middle English–1500s belte, Middle English– belt; also Scottish pre-1700 belt (past participle), pre-1700 belttit (past participle).
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: belt n.1
Etymology: < belt n.1, in some extended senses (see branch II.) probably as an alteration of or influenced by pelt v.1With use with reference to beating (see sense 9) compare earlier pelt v.1 1. With use with reference to swift or sudden motion (see sense 10) compare later pelt v.1 6. With use with reference to extreme weather (see sense 13) compare earlier pelt v.1 4 and belting adj. 2 (compare the discussion at that entry). Sense 12 (which includes uses with reference to singing) may show a semantic development based on this group. With use with reference to drinking (see sense 11) perhaps compare earlier under one's belt at belt n.1 Phrases 2.
I. To put a belt on a person.
1.
a. transitive. To put a belt on or around (a person, his or her waist, or another part of the body), esp. in order to secure or draw in clothing. Usually reflexive or in passive.In quot. 1583 with connotations of secrecy and untrustworthiness and also with ironic overtones of sense 1c(a).
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > in specific way > with specific garments > belt or girdle
girdc950
begirdc1000
belta1400
girdle1582
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 15285 Wid a tuel he belted his sides.
1583 R. Sempill in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. 104 Sum happis thair heidis, sum beltis thame vp in gounis.
1760 Muse's Delight ii. 44 Our Yorkshire lads, loyal and true, No better e'er belted in leather.
1838 Tales of Travellers I. 490/1 His waist was belted with a broad leathern girdle.
1895 G. Parker Adventurer of North 73 Someone had lent him the cinch of a broncho, and he had belted himself with it.
1911 M. Hewlett Song of Renny ii. xvi. 406 She pinned it across her breast with a brooch, and belted herself with a broad leather girdle which she took off a table at hand.
2006 E. Neill Closet Smarts i. 29/1 I love wrap tops or belting my waist, but I often forget to invest in accessories.
b. transitive. Chiefly Scottish. figurative. To endow or fortify (a person) with a quality, attribute, etc. Often with with. Frequently reflexive. rare after the 16th cent.In later use only with reference or allusion to Ephesians 6:14; cf. quot. c1520.
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a1425 Rule St. Benet (Lansd.) (1902) 2 We sal belt us wid chastiment, riht trouz þat ye haue wid gode dede, þat tu belte þine lendis sua, and þat tine fete be shod in riht gate.
c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1903) II. Eph. vi. 14 Be ye beltit about your lendis in suthfastnes, and clethit with the habirioun of richtuisnes.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. vi. xvii. f. 78/1 Belt ȝou thairfore (lusty gallandis) with manheid and wisdome.
1552 Abp. J. Hamilton Catech. iv. ix. f. 189 Belt our loynȝeis with verite.
1886 Homiletic Rev. Mar. 233/2 Belted with truth, abounding in the faith.
1955 R. W. Sockman Whole Armor of God ii. 28 When one is belted with truth, it gives him a compactness and firmness.
2005 J. Bynum Threshing Floor vi. 80 You have come in the name of Jesus, are clothed in righteousness, and are belted with truth.
c. spec. Originally Scottish.
(a) transitive. To gird (a person) with a weapon. Usually reflexive or in passive.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > arm [verb (reflexive)] > gird oneself with weapon
belt1488
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. 360 The best is callyt this day beltyt with brand.
a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) vii. l. 2000 Beltyt wiþe his suerde.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iv. v. 159 Belt he wes with a swerd of mettale brycht.
1820 W. Scott Abbot I. iii. 47 There ne'er was gentleman but who belted him with the brand.
1971 Analog Sci. Fiction/Sci. Fact Aug. 26/1 They were dressed in the same sort of dark green outfit as Tscharen, belted with guns and knives.
2006 E. Chadwick Scarlet Lion xxvii. 317 He glanced at Jordan, who was clad in a padded tunic and belted with his sword.
(b) transitive. To invest (a person) with a distinctive belt, esp. a sword belt signifying earldom or knighthood. Frequently with simple complement or as. Now chiefly historical.
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a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) ix. l. 2352 Sa was þe Stewart for his bownteys Beltyd erl of twa cowntteys.
a1525 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 242 Thair was maid in the forsaid parliament thre erllis, viz. schir Iames Crechtoun..was beltit erll of Murray.
1656 in J. A. Clyde Hope's Major Practicks (1937) I. 85 Such persones as have..bein solemnlie belted and woitted as temporall lords of parliament.
1782 G. Stuart Hist. Scotl. I. i. 100 He was belted earl of Ross.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby iii. xxx. 147 Allen-a-Dale was ne'er belted a knight.
1828 Amer. Ann. Reg. 1826–7 276/1 He..was belted with the three coloured band, which is the distinctive ornament of the chief magistrate of Chile.
1896 Scottish Rev. Apr. 326 He bore himself so bravely that the Earl belted him a knight-banneret on the battle-field of Poitiers.
1961 W. L. Warren King John iv. 106 John belted him as earl on the day of his coronation.
1990 D. Crouch W. Marshal iii. 65 A man might automatically succeed to the dignity of earl on his father's death, whether the king belted him or not.
2. transitive. To gird on (a weapon); to fasten on (armour, a shield, etc.) with a belt. Also with on.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > provide with clothing [verb (transitive)] > fasten
lace?c1225
gird1297
belta1400
buttona1425
garterc1440
lashc1440
pointa1470
trussa1475
lace1485
fasten1600
truss1610
bind1720
staylace1832
sandal1897
zip1929
to zip up1937
zipper1938
a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) l. 749 (MED) A bryȝt burnesched swerd he belteþ alofte, Of pur purged gold þe pomel & þe hulte.
c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2032 (MED) He hade belted þe bronde vpon his balȝe haunchez.
a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. ix. 9 A sword but help about hym beltis he.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 36 Bootelesse morglay to his sydes hee belted.
1782 T. Pennant Journey Chester to London 198 An enormous shield..is belted to his body.
1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel I. xi. 303 A trustier old Trojan never belted a broadsword by a loop of leather.
1860 R. S. Hardy W. Grimshaw xi. 185 As ready as when he first belted on his armour.
1909 Pall Mall Mag. Aug. 189 He belted his side-arms as the three constables, who acted as escort, led the horses from stable.
1935 L. Barringer Kay the Left-handed 113 Kay advanced to the cloak and belted on his dagger.
2005 T. Lyon Nightbane v. 95 Aric had seen the gun belted to the man's waist, and knew it was not the real deal.
3.
a. transitive. Originally Scottish. To fasten or draw in (a garment) with a belt; to do up the belt of.
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?a1600 ( R. Sempill Legend Bischop St. Androis in J. Cranstoun Satirical Poems Reformation (1891) I. xlv. 372 A cott of kelt Weill beltit in ane lethrone belt.
1715 D. Defoe View Scots Rebellion 21 The Highlander garters his Stockings below the knees, and wears no Breeches in the coldest Season, but his Plaid which is belted about him.
1786 Arpasia II. xxxvii. 118 She espied her great coat hanging on a chair; she threw it around her, and belting it close, moved with quickness towards the nursery.
1870 Daily Cleveland (Ohio) Herald 1 July They are long, loose sacks buttoned up in front and belted at the waist.
1909 Collier's 6 Feb. 12/1 The funniest-looking people were the larger-waisted persons with the life-preservers belted over their other wraps.
1989 W. W. Johnstone Journey of Mountain Man xxv. 167 He belted the money bag around his middle.
2015 Belfast Tel. (Nexis) 7 May 33 William, you see, is a follower of that particular fashion of belting loose jeans somewhere well below they're supposed be.
b. intransitive. With adverb or prepositional phrase as complement. Of a garment or a bag, pouch, etc.: to admit of being fastened in the specified place or manner by means of a belt incorporated in the design.
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1878 Monroeville (Indiana) Democrat 1 Aug. 1/4 Traveling-dresses are made with the ‘canezou’, or sacque with few seams, which belts in at the waist.
1911 Dry Goods Economist 23 Dec. 19/2 The coat belts across the front only.
1978 B. Hart & C. Hart Sooner or Later viii. 50 The top belts at my hips and falls over the top of my pants.
1997 J. Wilson Coarse Fishing Method Man. (1998) 113/1 Far better that you invest your money in a line tray which belts around the waist.
2000 M. Curley Old Magic ii. 151 A long pleated tunic with padded shoulders which belts at the waist with a buckle.
4. transitive (usually in passive). Chiefly with in, into, up.
a. To put a lifebelt on (a person). Cf. to belt up 1a at Phrasal verbs.
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1916 ‘P. Myron’ Miss Amer. Dollars ii. xxi. 173 The crew, with the lifeboats before them on deck and all belted with life preservers, were pushing up..towards the bow.
1918 Mountain States Monitor (Denver) May 27/2 Rocking in ‘the cradle of the deep’ does not induce sleep when one must woo Morpheus with one eye open, and belted in a life preserver.
1975 S. Bellow Humboldt's Gift 112 I had spent that morning..revolving elliptically over the city of New York in that Coast Guard helicopter, with the two US Senators and the Mayor..and crack journalists, all belted up in puffy life jackets.
2005 C. A. Wenger Cowboy Way xii. 197 Excitement charged the air as the kids got ready to swim. They were slathered with sunscreen, belted into life jackets and assigned to groups.
b. To secure (a person) in a seat in a motor vehicle, aeroplane, etc., with a seat belt. Cf. to belt up 1b at Phrasal verbs.
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1919 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 22 June (Mag.) 13/3 The passenger aboard an airplane..must be securely belted into his seat against the rolling and pitching of the machine.
1922 Argosy-Allstory Weekly 29 July 487/1 Before taking the pilot's seat in front of his two passengers he made certain that Ellen was safely belted in her seat.
1980 H. Hood None Genuine without this Signature 111 He came along easily when I put him in the pickup, but he didn't like it one bit when I belted him in.
1985 Paris (Texas) News 26 Nov. 3 a/2 Texans have been given three months in which to get used to the law which requires all front seat passengers as well as drivers to be safely belted.
2014 ‘A. Dice Clay’ & D. Ritz Filthy Truth 320 Once they were belted up in the backseat, I slipped in a cassette tape.
II. To apply something to or remove something from in the manner of a belt.
5.
a. transitive. Originally Scottish. To encircle as or like a belt; to form a ring around; to surround. Also: to surround or encircle with a wall, soldiers, etc. In early use with about, round.
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a1500 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Nero) i. l. 1046 Syne Litil Asy lyis but dout Nere beltit withe [the] se about.
c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. iv. iii. f. 38v/2 Thay wer belttit about on euery syde [L. circumventi] with ennymes.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 328 To belt the Inglismen round about with men of weir.
1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone iv. 76 They belt him round with hearts undaunted.
1832 H. Martineau For Each & All vi. 72 The trees belted the churchyard.
1845 Southern & Western Mag. & Rev. Oct. 256 The wampum girdle which belted his waist.
1891 E. Fawcett Songs of Doubt & Dream 307 Your arm is belting Her waist!
1905 Trans. Inst. Naval Architects 47 46 The side armour not only belted the ship completely at the water-line, but, above the belt, it enclosed the whole armament and other vital parts in a central citadel.
1917 G. H. Lepper From Nebula to Nebula (ed. 3) iii. 73 There is a great ring of excess matter belting the planet and rotating obliquely with respect to the ecliptic.
1928 R. Jeffers Cawdor & Other Poems 146 Therefore I belted The house and the tower and courtyard with stone.
2016 Gazette (Montreal) (Nexis) 26 Mar. c5 Belting the edges, rows of evergreen Boxwood shrubs will enclose three different size boulders in a triangular formation in the middle.
†b. transitive. spec. U.S. To remove or strip a ring of bark from (the trunk of a tree), esp. for the purpose of killing it. Cf. girdle v. 2a, ringbark v. 1. Obsolete.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > remove ring of bark
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > uncover or remove covering from [verb (transitive)] > strip or make bare > strip of outer layer > strip of skin, husk, or bark > in a ring
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1812 H. Marshall Hist. Kentucky 14 These improvements..consisted principally in..belting the larger trees.
1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville II. ix. 136 He [sc. the beaver] makes incisions round them [sc. trees], or, in technical phrase, belts them with his teeth.
1853 P. P. Kennedy Blackwater Chron. xiv. 216 One man,..in a hundred days, would belt or deaden one hundred acres.
1924 J. W. Raine Land of Saddle-bags ii. 30 He would first clear the lower levels, then part of the hillsides, not by cutting the trees down, but by belting them.
6. transitive. To cut soiled, dirty, or matted fleece from (a sheep), esp. from around the tail or teats. Cf. belt n.3, dag v.1 3, tag v.1 6. Now English regional (northern and midlands).
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > sheep-farming > sheep-shearing > shear sheep [verb (transitive)] > manner, technique, or part
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?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxiv To belt shepe. Yf any shepe ray or be fyled with dong about the tayle, take a payre of sheres & clipit away.
1587 L. Mascall First Bk. Cattell iii. 231 To tag or belt sheepe is, when any sheepe by running out or neshenes of his doong doe ray & defile his taile. The shepheard shal then take sheeres and clip the tags away, and cast dry mould theron.
1669 J. Blagrave Epitome Art of Husbandry 174 (heading) To belt Sheep.
1842 C. W. Johnson Farmer's Encycl. 196/2 To belt, in some districts, signifies to shear the buttocks and tails of sheep.
1917 M. Gyte Diary 24 May (1999) 128 Our Anthony cut all the lambs tails and belted the sheep.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 25/1 Belt, to cut matted and dirty wool from the area around the teats of a ewe so that lambs can suckle cleanly.
7. transitive. To form or produce a distinctive or contrasting band or stripe across (a landscape, the sky, etc.).
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the world > matter > colour > variegation > stripiness > stripe [verb (transitive)] > broad stripe
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1783 T. Warton Specimen Hist. Oxfordshire (ed. 2) 67 Ramparts..belting the hills far and wide with white.
1839 J. H. Ingraham Capt. Kyd I. i. i. 3/1 The land-locked bay and far-distant sea, which, wide as the vision extended, seemed to belt the horizon like a shining band of silver.
1840 D. MacCarthy Siege of Florence I. viii. 264 The monarch pines that bent their sombre branches above the cottage grew into distinctness, belting the ridge of the distant Apennine with deep blue.
1868 J. N. Lockyer Elem. Lessons Astron. xxiv. 135 Moments in which the meteors belted the sky like the meridians on a terrestrial globe.
1908 M. J. Cawein Poems II. 243 They have galloped into the mist That belts the autumn land.
2011 S. Stonich Shelter iii. 32 What you can see of The Lake beyond the poplar skirt belting the ridge looks narrow as a run of foil.
8. transitive. To connect (a machine, motor, wheel, etc.) to (also up to) another component with a flexible continuous belt; see belt n.1 12a. Frequently in passive. Also intransitive.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > of mechanism: operate [verb (intransitive)] > connect with driving mechanism
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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > parts of machines > mechanism > operate mechanism [verb (transitive)] > connect with driving mechanism
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1889 Science 13 Dec. 412/1 A ½-horse-power motor belted to a small three-piston suction and force pump.
1902 J. S. Thompson Mechanism of Linotype (1908) xxiv. 172 To drive the machine by belting directly to the intermediate shaft.
1903 Power June 325/2 The engineer unloaded the machine... By changing some of his pulleys around he was able to belt it up to the shafting.
1983 World Archaeol. 15 188 The electric motor is belted to a large pulley.
2008 R. Williams & A. Williams Kickapoo Quintet I. ii. 36 Another pulley located under the hole in the floor was belted to a pulley on the washing machine up in the kitchen.
III. To beat with a belt; to hit, move, or act in a forceful way.
9.
a. transitive. Originally Scottish. To beat (a person or part of the body) with a belt or similar implement, esp. as a punishment. Cf. strap v.1 2.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > with strap or thong
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1568 ( D. Lindsay Satyre (Bannatyne) l. 942 in Wks. (1931) II. 144 And als I vow, cum thow this gait agane Thy buttokkis salbe beltit, be sanct blane.
a1585 P. Hume Flyting with Montgomerie (Tullibardine) iii. 39 in Poems A. Montgomerie (2000) I. 156 Quhidder thow will let belt thy bawis Or kis all cloffis that standis besyde.
1601 in S. Ree Rec. Elgin (1908) II. 88 James Vauis..ordenit to be beltit be the maister off the Grammer Schole.
1649 in C. Rogers Social Life Scotl. (1884) II. 217 Comitted to Alexander Cuming to see him belted be his mother.
a1700 in Coll. Scarce & Valuable Tracts (1811) V. 460 I wad she were wele belted with a bridle.
1818 J. Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck II. 162 I wish he had beltit your shoulders.
1920 ‘J. E. Jeffery’ Side Issues 57 He belts her wid his whip.
1987 W. Russell Our Day Out (1993) 33 Sir, sir, me mum says nott'n about it but when me dad comes home, sir, sir, he belts me.
2004 J. Erdal Ghosting v. 151 For minor lapses my father belted us on our outstretched hands.
b. transitive. colloquial. To hit or strike (a person) in an attempt to inflict pain or cause injury; to attack. Later also more generally: to hit or strike hard.
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the world > movement > impact > striking > strike [verb (transitive)]
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1838 J. C. Neal Charcoal Sketches 46 He intends to belt me, does he? Take a stick—.
1884 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Huckleberry Finn iii. 32 They [sc. genies] don't think nothing of..belting a Sunday-school superintendent over the head.
1912 J. Galsworthy Pigeon ii. 55 Megan'll get his mates to belt him.
1957 I. Cross God Boy (1958) xviii. 152 It [sc. a dog] cut right across the road..and was belted by a wool truck.
1982 P. Barker Union Street v. 201 Her eyes were so black you'd 've thought somebody had belted her one.
1999 T. Holt Alexander at World's End v. 87 Philip rolled his eyes..then belted the table with his fist so hard that cups and jugs fell over on all sides.
2013 R. Malfi Cradle Lake xxxviii. 356 She swung and belted him on the side of his head.
c. Sport (originally Baseball).
(a) transitive. To hit or kick (the ball) hard.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > [verb (transitive)] > play ball in specific way
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1870 Milwaukee (Wisconsin) Daily Sentinel 7 July They hit low, to safe spots, in preference to attempting to belt the ball over the fielders' heads.
1897 Brooklyn Daily Eagle 8 May 7/3 He belted..the ball hard, and Jones came home.
1978 Globe & Mail (Canada) (Nexis) 7 Nov. Blackwood..is a good serve and volley player who prefers to belt the ball rather than playing patient baseline tennis.
1979 Age (Melbourne) 2 July 9/7 To ‘quilt’—belt—a cricket ball is English in origin, he insists.
2015 Daily Rec. & Sunday Mail (Nexis) 30 Aug. (Second ed.) 69 He..turned away from a defender and fairly belted the ball high into the net.
(b) transitive. To score (a run, goal, etc.) by hitting or kicking the ball hard. In baseball also (and earliest) with out.
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1912 Lima (Ohio) Daily News 8 July 3/4 In three trips to the plate, the auburn-haired first sacker belted out a homer, a double and a single.
1913 Wichita Daily Times (Wichita Falls, Texas) 16 May 6/3 The visitors lead was over-come and a victory gained in the eighth when Shelton belted a home run.
1946 Chicago Defender 13 July 11/7 Quincy Troupe belted out a home run.
1952 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Dispatch 2 Aug. a6/1 Ending a string of 15 consecutive hitless trips, Dick belted a single, double and homer.
1990 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 19 Sept. (Late ed.) (Sport section) 64 (caption) Richard Fromberg..belts a winner during practice at White City yesterday.
2005 TNT Mag. 7 Mar. 46/1 He belted 10 fours and five sixes in his knock.
10.
a. intransitive. Scottish. To spring forward suddenly. rare. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this sense as still in use in Shetland in 1934.
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1808 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Belt, to come forward with a sudden spring.
b. colloquial. To move along quickly; to rush about; to hurry. Usually with adverb or prepositional phrase of direction. Also sometimes transitive with it. Cf. full belt adv. at full adj., n.2, and adv. Compounds 1b.
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1890 J. D. Robertson Gloss. Words County of Gloucester Belt, to racket or bustle about.
1894 Outing 24 57/2 I belted along as fast as the waders and treacherous footing would allow.
1942 We speak from Air vii. 24 A picture of two Me. 109's belting down on your tail from out of the sun.
1949 D. M. Davin Roads from Home iii. iii. 227 Looked like the one that raced us on the way up this morning... He's belting it out by the look of him.
1959 W. Hall Long & Short & Tall i. 42 We'll have to belt it like the clappers out of hell.
1999 BBC Top Gear Mag. Aug. 31/4 This big thing is surprisingly agile; it grips like a barnacle and it belts through all manner of corners.
2014 Sunday Express (Nexis) 9 Nov. 58 I'd belt downstairs in me pants, hoping she'd got the fire lit.
11. transitive. colloquial (originally and chiefly U.S.).
a. To drink (alcohol or another drink) quickly. Also with down, back.
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1845 Spirit of Times 2 Aug. 267/1 He can belt six shillins worth of corn-juice at still-house rates and travel.
1877 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 26 Sept. 2/6 The old fellow hadn't fit through the Revolution to be killed by a rattlesnake, so he belted down about a gallon of whisky, and was all right in a few days.
1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) ii. 43 Jack takes to belting the old grape right freely to get his zing back.
1988 D. Woodrell Muscle for Wing xii. 118 He filled his plate with a glob of everything, then belted back some brew.
1991 W. Johnson in W. Abrahams O. Henry Prize Stories of 1991 180 Martin belted down the hot coffee.
2001 P. Doyle Devil's Jump iii. 45 Herb kept belting his flask of whisky.
b. to belt the bottle and variants: to drink large or excessive quantities of alcohol, esp. habitually.
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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [verb (intransitive)]
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to crook one's elbow or little finger1825
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to tank up1902
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to belt the bottle1941
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1941 Amarillo (Texas) Globe 11 July 4/4 Some of the lushes of the Red Sox fell to belting the bottle while the manager was out of sight.
1960 Observer 18 Sept. 19/2 He is given to belting the bottle.
1972 Bennington (Vermont) Banner 5 June 4/7 A politician..in some low dive, belting the bottle.
2013 Australian (Nexis) 19 Nov. 5 Bob used to belt the bottle a bit and all the rest of it.
12. transitive. colloquial. Chiefly with out.
a. To produce or emit (something) quickly, freely, copiously, or violently; to send out in large quantities.In quot. 1914 with music as object; cf. sense 12b.
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1914 Bulletin (Sydney) 17 Sept. 34/2 At more than half the patriotic concerts in Australia the National Anthem, ‘Britons Never Shall be Slaves’,..and so on, are belted out of pianos made at Blooduntgutsburg.
1956 D. Davin Sullen Bell i. xii. 79 The early-morning hate belting shells into the battalion lines.
1967 Jrnl. (Inst. Gas Engineers) Feb. a8/2 (advt.) This is the gas fire that belts out heat three ways.
1987 B. Bainbridge Forever Eng. iii. 83 From the gates there was a view of Royston drift mine.., its chimney belting out smoke.
1993 S. Shafquat Shadow Man iii. 35 We cruised down the freeway.., the sun belting heat from a cloudless sky.
2011 Coventry Evening Tel. (Nexis) 1 Nov. 10 Who needs buses and taxis belting out fumes in Broadgate?
b. Music (originally U.S.). Of a singer: to sing (a song, tune, etc.) in a loud and powerful voice; spec. to sing (a song, tune, etc.) using the technique of belting (see belting n. 2c). Also of a band or ensemble: to perform or play (music, a song, etc.) loudly or in a rousing, highly energetic style.
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society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > perform (music) [verb (transitive)] > specific style or technique
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1947 Billboard 30 Aug. 36/2 Her [sc. Ella Logan's] hoydenish stance, out of which she squared off for each number, belting each out with that Scotch burr of hers, got results all the way.
1958 J. Steinbeck Once there was War p. xix One of the finest jazz combos I ever heard was belting out pure ecstasy.
1975 D. Bloomberg Meet People iv. 48 A capacity audience worked itself into a frenzy whilst a hidden orchestra belted out famous Garland numbers.
2004 R. Rooksby Melody xi. 204 ‘Lump..’ is a rock power-ballad, so belting the note is OK.
2016 Sunday Mercury (Nexis) 17 Apr. (News section) 14 I thoroughly enjoyed belting out some great tunes without worrying what everyone else thought.
c. To utter (a shout, cry, laugh, etc.) loudly; to shout (something) in a loud or forceful voice.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > cry or shout (loudness) > cry or shout [verb (transitive)]
remeOE
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1971 N.Y. Times 28 Mar. d17/5 Niska is an exuberant woman and often belts out a laugh.
1987 A. Miller Timebends i. 60 He would belt out a roar that you couldn't bear to look at him.
1990 E. Leonard Get Shorty iv. 36 She stands there long enough to belt out a scream that will fill movie theaters, raise millions of goose bumps and make Harry a lot of money.
2005 Farmington (New Mexico) Daily Times (Nexis) 18 July a1 Two-month-old Edmar Erives belted a cry following his shot of a concoction of medicines.
2017 B. A. Sáenz Inexplicable Logic of my Life 288 God, did you belt out a cry.
13. intransitive. colloquial. Also transitive with it.
a. Of the sun: to beat down.
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the world > matter > light > naturally occurring light > emit beams (of a luminary) [verb (intransitive)] > begin to shine > shine (of or like the sun)
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1942 Washington Post 7 Jan. 22/5 A bright sun belted down.
1946 D. Hill in Penguin New Writing 28 177 The sun was belting it down, directly overhead.
1983 J. Strachey Julia 169 It was a grilling hot evening. Sunlight was still belting down on the wych-elms and sycamores.
2015 Advertiser (Austral.) (Nexis) 20 Dec. 4 As the sun belts down on South Australia, primary producers are doing their best to meet demand for local grub this Christmas.
b. Of rain: to fall heavily. Chiefly with down. Also with non-referential it as subject.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > rain falls [verb (intransitive)] > beat
pelt1665
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1963 Guardian 19 Aug. 4/3 The rain was belting down at eight in the morning.
1992 S. Humphries & P. Gordon Out of Sight v. 129 I once remember that I just had nowhere to go at all, and it was belting it down with rain.
1997 Bristol Post (Nexis) 20 Aug. 10 Mending a puncture at 1am in the middle of the moors, when it's belting down with rain—happy days.
2000 I. Pattison Stranger here Myself (2001) ii. 94 I trudged down Fairfield Street, the rain still belting.
2012 West Briton (Nexis) 8 Nov. 109 (caption) The Penryn and Bude packs prepare for action as the rain belts down at the Memorial Ground.

Phrases

colloquial (originally Australian) to belt out a living: to earn a living; to toil, labour. Cf. to knock out 8 at knock v. Phrasal verbs. Now rare.
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1910 Bulletin (Sydney) 27 Oct. 10/3 He considers his method of belting out a living as honorable as that of Judkins, Dill Macky or any other strife-creator.
1934 Advocate (Burnie, Tasmania) 17 Nov. 13/3 (advt.) Why continue to belt out a living by hand when machinery will do the job?
1962 Steubenville (Ohio) Herald-Star 25 Sept. 6/2 Young people..enjoying the privilege of lingering in the pleasant groves of academia before pulling up their socks and trying to belt out a living and a life.

Phrasal verbs

With adverbs in specialized senses. to belt up
colloquial.
1. intransitive. Originally and chiefly British.
a. To put on a lifebelt. Somewhat rare. Cf. sense 4a.
ΚΠ
1889 Ipswich Jrnl. 15 Feb. 3/7 The crowd..found the coxswain and crew [of the lifeboat] already preparing to ‘belt up’.
1988 B. Sterling Islands in Net iv. 110 Andrei handed them life jackets, including a small one for the baby. They belted up.
2006 B. Fogle in J. Cracknell & B. Fogle Crossing v. 110 I remembered that..James had announced that he would never wear a life jacket at sea. At that point I had presumed this was bravado that when he saw the oceans we would encounter he would ‘belt up’.
b. To put on a seat belt in a motor vehicle, aeroplane, etc. Cf. sense 4b.
ΚΠ
1968 Guardian 23 Dec. 7/5 He belted-up dutifully and had an uneventful journey.
1978 Glaxo Group News Nov. 1 I always belt up when I'm driving and would urge every driver to do the same.
1998 Independent 24 Apr. i. 5/5 Passengers in the rear would face on-the-spot $20 fines for not belting up.
2015 Loughborough Echo (Nexis) 21 Oct. 63 People are less likely to belt up on short or familiar journeys.
2. intransitive. British and Australian. To be quiet, stop talking. Frequently in imperative: ‘shut up’.
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the mind > language > speech > taciturnity or reticence > be silent/refrain from speaking [verb (intransitive)]
to hold one's tonguec897
to keep one's tonguec897
to be (hold oneself) stilla1000
to say littleOE
to hold one's mouthc1175
to shut (also close) one's mouthc1175
to keep (one's) silence?c1225
to hold (also have, keep) one's peacea1275
stillc1330
peacec1395
mum1440
to say neither buff nor baff1481
to keep (also play) mum1532
to charm the tonguec1540
to have (also set, keep) a hatch before the door1546
hush1548
to play (at) mumbudgeta1564
not to say buff to a wolf's shadow1590
to keep a still tongue in one's head1729
to sing small1738
to sew up1785
let that fly stick in (or to) the wall1814
to say (also know) neither buff nor stye1824
to choke back1844
mumchance1854
to keep one's trap shut1899
to choke up1907
to belt up1949
to keep (or stay) shtum1958
shtum1958
1949 E. Partridge Dict. Slang (ed. 3) Add. 988/1 Belt up, shut up!: R.A.F.: since ca. 1937.
1958 News Chron. 22 May 4/3 Belt up is just another way of saying be quiet.
1959 M. Pugh Chancer v. 57 Why don't you belt up?.. Go and boil your can.
1969 Listener 30 Jan. 147/3 May we hope that Hamilton will do a service to art by belting up and going back to school?
2011 Guardian (Nexis) 22 July (Features section) 15 Oh do belt up. We all stopped listening to you lot long ago.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

> as lemmas

belt
a. buff accoutrements, belt; buff-hide, buff-skin; †buff-hard adj.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > [adjective] > very
iron-hardOE
bone?a1300
adamantinea1382
stony?1523
adamant1535
steel-harda1560
buff-hard1589
steely1596
diamantine1605
steela1607
rocked1610
Brazil1635
adamantean1671
osseousa1682
iron1708
ferreous1774
rock-likea1793
cast iron1886
bone-hard1924
society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > leather > [noun] > leather from ox, cow, or buffalo
neat's leather?a1425
buff-leather1574
buff-hide1589
buff-skin1589
cowhide1728
robe1761
Grecian leather1852
crop1858
crop-leather1858
steerhide1921
1589 in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 192 Good store of Buffe hides.
1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 200 His [sc. the rhinoceros'] more then buffe-hard-skinne.
1622 G. de Malynes Consuetudo 81 The Commodities of East-land, and thereabouts..Cables, Canuas, Buffe-hides.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Buff The Skin of this Animal [sc. the ‘Buffelo’] being dress'd in Oil..makes..Buff-skin.
1740 W. Somervile Hobbinol ii. 306 His Buff Doublet, larded o'er with Fat Of slaughter'd Brutes.
1794 G. Adams Lect. Nat. & Exper. Philos. I. iv. 133 Another cup furnished at bottom with a piece of buff-skin.
1813 Duke of Wellington Let. 28 Nov. in Dispatches (1838) XI. 334 Sets of buff accoutrements for the soldiers.
1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. vii. 16/2 The military classes in those old times, whose buff-belts, [and] complicated chains..have been bepainted in modern Romance.
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