Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A clasp for a belt; specifically, in machinery, a device for connecting the ends of belting so as to make a continuous band.
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Examples
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It was a monogram and love-knot after the fashion of the seventeenth century, and made, when joined, a superb belt-clasp, each little ornament of the relief repeating the two dates.
Manners and Social Usages Mrs. John M. E. W. Sherwood
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Men might have set their soft dis-honouriag lips where belt and belt-clasp met; hands might have trapped and dragged
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After some deliberation, Dick chose a belt-clasp in a box by itself, and the girl who had been waiting on him called a clerk.
Brandon of the Engineers Harold Bindloss 1905
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If your cousin Annie has a jet belt-clasp or bracelet, and if you find in aunt Edith's box of old treasures an odd - shaped brooch of jet, you may remember the coal again; for jet is only one kind of lignite, which is a name for a certain preparation of coal.
The Stories Mother Nature Told Her Children Jane Andrews 1860
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