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belting
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Word definitions for belting in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Belting \Belt"ing\, n. The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Belting is the use of belts made of strong materials (usually leather ) as a whip -like instrument for corporal punishment (see that article for generalities). It is most often associated with educational institutions where it has been used as disciplinary ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the material of which belts are made
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
(context Northern English dialect English) very good; exceptional (qualifier: can also be used adverbially) n. 1 A beating with a belt. 2 (context figuratively English) A thorough defeat; a thrashing. v (present participle of belt English)
Usage examples of belting.
Scotch out of the kitchen and kept belting it down straight between screaming and cursing and threatening me with financial ruin and telling me candidly just why she really had been willing to marry an unpedigreed mutt like me to begin with.
It allowed her to adjust her legs, the black-patent-leather belting in swells of flesh, and to pky Hostess.
When she emerged a moment later, still belting a grey robe about her, Selby regarded her narrowly.
And then, best of all, is this little matter of sixteen unpatrolled miles of conveyor belting.
He enjoyed cadging beers and belting whores around when they spurned his crude propositions.
After belting the scabbard in place and sheathing the blade, careful not to touch the cold iron, he cleaned his boots as well as he could and remounted.
I knew I would sit there and endure until the catalogue of beltings and poundings had dissolved into incoherence, into tears, into hysteria, and then I would flow Into the cracks in the kid's soul like epoxy glue and make him seem whole for a while .
Glory days on the football pitch, playground misdemeanours, resultant beltings from teachers, pubescent sexual innnuendo and juvenile pugilism.
But despite the beltings, the fascination with his pee-spout continued.
Central-factory systems, particularly alter the development of the rotary-vane air motor in the 1820s, superceded the clumsy, friction-ridden and dangerous belting and shafting the British pioneers of the Industrial Age had used.
He was waiting to invite Kitty and her team through to the beer garden of the hotel where a traditional oom-pa-pa band in Lederhosen and alpine hats was belting out a medley of German drinking songs.
Jerome belting out Everythings Coming up Roses propelling his feet.
Even Shannon was belting down the brandy and grinning like a Dodge City saloon hostess.
Up on stage a lounge band was backing a female impersonator belting out torch songs.
She was wearing some sort of hostess gown, deep aqua, floor-length, with a wide scooped neck, a metallic golden rope belting it at the natural waistline.