Crossword clues for belted
belted
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Belted \Belt"ed\, a.
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.
Marked with a band or circle; as, a belted stalk.
-
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.
Belt \Belt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Belted; p. pr. & vb. n. Belting.] To encircle with, or as with, a belt; to encompass; to surround.
A coarse black robe belted round the waist.
--C. Reade.
They belt him round with hearts undaunted.
--Wordsworth.
2. To shear, as the buttocks and tails of sheep. [Prov. Eng.]
--Halliwell.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: belt)
WordNet
adj. having or provided with a belt; "a belted dress" [ant: unbelted]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "belted".
He was wearing one belted around his bulk, yet if he had handled a sword these past twenty years.
They wore loose black tunics, belted over full trousers which gathered into white cruiser boots.
They can take belted ammunition in disintegrating link in boxes of 200, or ordinary magazines.
He still wore jeans and the checkered sneakers but had donned a leather Viking tunic on top, belted at the waist.
Ludmilla had, reluctantly, left behind the swashbuckling lady-pirate outfit she had worn on Melos and was now dressed in a demure belted gown, with all weapons tucked out of sight.
Slowly the man let his sword fall to the ground and dropped his belted seax beside it, turning his hands palm upward and open to show his surrender.
The man swore and swang on him, so Branahan belted him one on the side of the head with the flash, and the man staggered back against the wall.
Magister Vergier asked, his fringe of graying hair in disarray, his cote hastily thrown on and not yet belted.
Perhaps, poor Drusenin was not above swaggering a little, belted in the gay uniform Russian officers loved to wear, to the confounding of the poor Aleut who looked on the pistols in belt, the cutlass dangling at heel, the bright shoulder straps and colored cuffs, as insignia of a power almighty.
Gaines belted it on, and accepted a helmet, into which he crammed his head, leaving the antinoise ear flaps up.
He shared it with one of the Mouths of the Bedu nomads, an enigmatic and apparently sexless creature covered from head to toe in one of their characteristic, belted blue robes and over-vest, dyed with indigo.
She came in a little before four, wearing a belted leather jacket that Blackburn had not seen before.
First punching the Blackshirt in front of Stem in the kidney area so that his hands dropped to protect himself, I then belted him hard in the side of the jaw.
Don Cooder, a feverish gleam in his eyes, slipped out the building bundled up in a belted trenchcoat, dark glasses, and Borsalino hat.
They wore the traditional Dakotan green outfit: a short-sleeved top, belted around the middle, loose trousers.