Bible Dictionaries
Belt

Webster's Dictionary

(1):

(v. t.) To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.

(2):

(n.) 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.

(3):

(n.) Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a belt.

(4):

(n.) One of certain girdles or zones on the surface of the planets Jupiter and Saturn, supposed to be of the nature of clouds.

(5):

(n.) A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.

(6):

(n.) A token or badge of knightly rank.

(7):

(n.) A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.

(8):

(n.) A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.

(9):

(n.) That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.

(10):

(n.) That which restrains or confines as a girdle.

(11):

(v. t.) To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep.

Bibliography Information
Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Belt'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​web/​b/belt.html. 1828.