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Webster 1913 Edition


Belted

Belt′ed

,
Adj.
1.
Encircled by, or secured with, a belt;
as, a
belted
plaid
; girt with a belt, as an honorary distinction;
as, a
belted
knight; a
belted
earl
.
2.
Marked with a band or circle;
as, a
belted
stalk
.
3.
Worn in, or suspended from, the belt.
Three men with
belted
brands.
Sir W. Scott.
Belted cattle
,
cattle originally from Dutch stock, having a broad band of white round the middle, while the rest of the body is black; – called also
blanketed cattle
.

Definition 2024


belted

belted

English

Verb

belted

  1. simple past tense and past participle of belt

Adjective

belted (not comparable)

  1. (of a garment) Fitted with a belt.
    • 1952, “The Way Things Are,” Time, 7 April, 1952,
      Air Force Chief of Staff General Hoyt S. Vandenberg explained to a House Appropriations subcommittee why the Air Force prefers suspenders: “A battle jacket with belted trousers is an unsightly appearing garment. Every time you lean over your shirt sticks out in back...”
    • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 6,
      She was a doctor's receptionist, and wore a blouse and skirt under her belted mac.
  2. Wearing a belt.
    • 1875, Oliver Wendell Holmes, “Grandmother’s Story of Bunker Hill Battle (As She Saw It from the Belfry),”
      How the bayonets gleamed and glistened, as we looked far down, and listened
      To the trampling and the drum-beat of the belted grenadiers!
  3. (of breeds of cattle) Characterized by a white band around the body.
    Belted Dutch cattle
    Belted Galloway

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