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

Cincture :: Cincture (n.) A belt, a girdle, or something worn round the body, -- as by an ecclesiastic for confining the alb..

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

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

Gearing :: Gearing (n.) The parts by which motion imparted to one portion of an engine or machine is transmitted to another, considered collectively; as, the valve gearing of locomotive engine; belt gearing; esp., a train of wheels for transmitting and varying motion in machinery..

Beltane :: Beltane (n.) The first day of May (Old Style).

Belt :: Belt (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..

Xylophone :: Xylophone (n.) An instrument common among the Russians, Poles, and Tartars, consisting of a series of strips of wood or glass graduated in length to the musical scale, resting on belts of straw, and struck with two small hammers. Called in Germany strohfiedel, or straw fiddle..

Pulley :: Pulley (v. t.) A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain..

Bind :: Bind (v. t.) To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part..

Belting :: Belting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Bel.

Zodiac :: Zodiac (n.) A girdle; a belt.

Dragon :: Dragon (n.) A short musket hooked to a swivel attached to a soldier's belt; -- so called from a representation of a dragon's head at the muzzle.

Step :: Step (v. i.) One of a series of offsets, or parts, resembling the steps of stairs, as one of the series of parts of a cone pulley on which the belt runs..

Roller :: Roller (n.) A long, belt-formed towel, to be suspended on a rolling cylinder; -- called also roller towel..

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

Girdle :: Girdle (n.) That which girds, encircles, or incloses; a circumference; a belt; esp., a belt, sash, or article of dress encircling the body usually at the waist; a cestus..

Wampum :: Wampum (n.) Beads made of shells, used by the North American Indians as money, and also wrought into belts, etc., as an ornament..

Beltein :: Beltein (n.) Alt. of Belti.

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.

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