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The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
Belting \Belt"ing\, n. The material of which belts for machinery are made; also, belts, taken collectively.
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)
WordNet
n. the material of which belts are made
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 measure but it has also been applied domestically by parents. This practice has now been abolished by most schools, at least in the Western world, as it is seen by many as abusive and excessive punishment, though many parents, especially fathers, still beat their children with a belt.
The punisher might use their own belt (always at hand) or the one worn by the person to be punished. In other cases, especially in an institutional context, a separate belt is kept (e.g. in the head’s office) solely for disciplinary use, and possibly displayed, again as a warning.
The difference with a strapping, although in practice both terms are also used unprecisely as synonyms, is that a strap is harder, made from heavier and/or thicker leather, and may be specially made for discipline and have a handle (notably a prison strap), unlike a 'real' belt.
The beating is usually administered to the bare buttocks or back or both of the miscreant youth who bends over furniture or the punisher's lap. A belt might be used to lash in three ways:
- doubled by holding both ends in one hand, this halves its length (necessary in case of bending over knee or lap) but increases its effective thickness, both making it behave more like a strap;
- single, while holding the buckle or wrapping that around the fist; its weight is reduced which results in uneven impact, the severity increasing towards the tip of the belt
- least common but most severe, holding the buckle-less end, so that the buckle can 'bite' the flesh particularly hard.
In domestic discipline it was mainly used by fathers, while mothers rather used a slipper, or some kitchen utensil.
The term is also used figuratively for any beating in general, regardless of the implement (e.g. in Scotland, the tawse, a forked type of strap, was frequently called the belt) or even absence thereof, also in the figurative sense, such as a defeat or similarly unpleasant, painful and/or humiliating (e.g. verbal) treatment, or even an impersonal misfortune that feels as painful, such as a financial loss.
In Russia and other countries of the former USSR belting has been a standard form of domestic corporal punishment of children. It has been equally implemented by both parents and other senior members of the family such as grandparents. The punished child has usually laid flat on sofa or bed, or the children's neck or torso has been clutched between the punisher's legs. The belt has been implemented almost exclusively on bare buttocks and sometimes on bare thighs. Some nervous parent could hit his or her child in the other parts of body, but it has not been regarded as proper punishment and has been condemned by public opinion. Such persons could be persecuted by law, while the law usually has not "noticed" "proper" domestic punishment, which has been also officially regarded as a form of child abuse. Today the usage of corporal punishment of children in Russia is gradually declining like in the western world.
Category:Corporal punishments Category:Whipping
Belting (or vocal belting) is a specific technique of singing by which a singer brings their chest register above its natural passaggio (break) at a loud volume; instead, an alternative production is developed, often described and felt as supported and sustained yelling. 'Belting' is sometimes described as 'high chest voice' but this is technically incorrect and potentially damaging for the voice. It is often described as a vocal register, although this is also technically incorrect; it is rather a descriptive for the use of a register. Singers can use belting to convey heightened emotional states.
Belting can refer to:
- Belting (beating), the act of using a belt as an instrument of physical punishment;
- Belting (music);
- George B. Belting, American politician.
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.