Word Definition

Belt

  1. A token or badge of knightly rank.
  2. To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.
  3. A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.
  4. A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.
  5. One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
  6. That which restrains or confines as a girdle.
  7. A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.
  8. Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt.
  9. Anything that resembles a belt, or that encircles or crosses like a belt; a strip or stripe; as, a belt of trees; a belt of sand.
  10. To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep.
  11. That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.