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noun A flexible band, as of leather or cloth, worn around the waist to support clothing, secure tools or weapons, or serve as decoration.
noun Something that resembles this type of band: a belt of trees.
noun An encircling route.

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A broad flat strip or strap of leather or other flexible material, used to encircle the waist; a girdle; cincture; zone; band. Ordinarily it is worn buckled or hooked tight to the waist, and in all ages it has been a common article of apparel, both to keep the garments in place and to support weapons, or a purse, a writing-case, or the like: it may be made of any material. The military belt of the middle ages was sometimes composed of small plates of metal held to each other by rings, was attached to the armor, and, according to the fashion of the latter, was worn more or less low, sometimes resting below the hips upon the skirt of plate-armor. Sometimes the sword was not secured to the belt, which was then rather a mark of rank and dignity than a necessary part of the dress. (See sword-belt and baldric.) The broad bands supporting the bayonet-sheath and cartridge-box, worn by infantry in Europe during the century ending about 1850, were also called belts or cross-belts. See girdle. The shining belt with gold inlaid. Dryden.
Any broad band or strip of leather or other flexible material, designed to pass round anything, with its ends joined. In machinery, a flexible cord or band passing about the periphery of wheels, drums, or pulleys, for the purpose of transmitting motion from one to another. Belts are usually made of leather, but india-rubber and gutta-percha are occasionally used; also hempen cord, wire rope, and cords for small pulleys. See belting. In surgery, a bandage or band used by surgeons for various purposes.
Any broad band or stripe or continuous broad line distinguished in color or otherwise from adjacent objects, and encircling or appearing to encircle something. Specifically— In astronomy, one of certain girdles or rings which surround the planet Jupiter. A broad band or stripe on the earth's surface extending over or along a surface or region, and distinguished from it by difference of color, aspect, etc.; a tract or district long in proportion to its breadth, and characterized by the presence, occurrence, or absence of some marked physical or other peculiarity or phenomenon: as, the oil belt; a belt of vegetation; the corn belt, wheat belt, etc.; a belt of trees. Pinks were gleaming in every direction through the clumps and belts of the plantation. Lawrence. You see green trees rising above the belt of sand. W. H. Russell. The proposed Nicaragua Canal has proved to lie within the earthquake belt. Sci. Amer., N. S., LV. 64. The manufacturers of this favored region have decidedly the advantage of their less fortunate competitors away from the gas belt. Jour. Franklin Inst., CXXI. 310.

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I think you're right that hoping for a belt is as good as it gets. — MVN
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When Tim Hauser joined the Onalaska Police Department on Jan. 31, 1977, the only tools on his belt were a weapon, a flashlight, a hand-held radio that had only one frequency and a set of handcuffs.
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A few seconds later a deer dashed close past him, but, as his belt was already hung round with game, and home was still far distant, he did not shoot. — The Hot Swamp

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Middle English, from Old English, ultimately from Latin balteus.

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from Middle English belt, from Anglo-Saxon belt = Old High German balz = Icelandic belti = Swedish bälte = Danish bælte = Irish and Gaelic balt, a belt, a border; prob. from Latin balteus, a belt.
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