belt

belt has 21 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 4.

Definitions

• n.. That which engirdles a person or thing; a band or girdle; as, a lady's belt; a sword belt.
• n.. That which restrains or confines as a girdle.
• 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.
• n.. Same as Band, n., 2. A very broad band is more properly termed a 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.
• n.. A narrow passage or strait; as, the Great Belt and the Lesser Belt, leading to the Baltic Sea.
• n.. A token or badge of knightly rank.
• n.. A band of leather, or other flexible substance, passing around two wheels, and communicating motion from one to the other.
• n.. A band or stripe, as of color, round any organ; or any circular ridge or series of ridges.
• v. t.. To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.
• v. t.. To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep.
• n.. the act of hitting vigorously; "he gave the table a whack"