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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 712 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BELT (a word
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common to
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Teutonic
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languages, the Old Ger.
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form being
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bale, from which the
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Lat. balteus probably derived)  , a
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flat strap of
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leather or other material used as a
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girdle (q.v.), especially the cinctura glad ii or
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sword-
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belt, the
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chief " ornamentof
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investiture " of an
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earl or
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knight; in machinery, a flexible strap passing
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round from one
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drum,
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pulley or
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wheel to another, for the purpose of
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power-transmission(q.v.) . The word is applied to any broad stripe, to the belts of the
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planet
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Jupiter, to the
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armour-belt at the
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water-
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line of a warship, or to a
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tract of
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country; narrow in proportion to its length, with
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special distinguishing characteristics, such as the
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earthquake-belt across a
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continent .

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