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BELT (a word common to Teutonic languages, the Old Ger. form being bale, from which the Lat. balteus probably derived)

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 712 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BEC-BER
BELT (a word common to Teutonic languages, the Old Ger. form being bale, from which the Lat. balteus probably derived) , a flat strap of leather or other material used as a
girdle
  (q.v.), especially the cinctura glad ii or sword-belt, the
chief
  " ornamentof
investiture
  " of an
earl
  or knight; in machinery, a flexible strap passing round from one drum,
pulley
  or wheel to another, for the purpose of power-transmission(q.v.). The word is applied to any broad stripe, to the belts of the
planet
  Jupiter, to the
armour
 -belt at the water-line of a warship, or to a
tract
  of country; narrow in proportion to its length, with
special
  distinguishing characteristics, such as the earthquake-belt across a continent.


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