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What does "belt" mean?

Belt: That which restrains or confines as a girdle. He cannot buckle his distempered cause Within the belt of rule. Shak.

Additional senses

  1. 2.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.
  2. 3.(Arch.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt.
  3. 4.(Astron.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.
  4. 5.(Geog.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.
  5. 6.(Her.) A token or badge of knightly rank.
  6. 7.(Mech.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other. Note: [See Illust. of Pulley.]
  7. 8.(Nat. Hist.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges. Belt lacing, thongs used for lacing together the ends of machine belting.
  8. 9.To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround. A coarse black robe belted round the waist. C. Reade. They belt him round with hearts undaunted. Wordsworth.
  9. 10.To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

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