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

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