belting

[ bel-ting ]

noun
  1. material for belts.

  2. belts collectively.

  1. Informal. a beating or thrashing.

  2. Obsolete. belt.

Origin of belting

1
First recorded in 1560–70; belt + -ing1

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How to use belting in a sentence

  • A steam-engine on four wheels arrived from Exeter, and pulleys and beltings were fixed up to work the old-fashioned press.

    Thomas Hardy's Dorset | Robert Thurston Hopkins
  • They have not always been what so many of them are nowmere couplings, conveniences, connecting-rods, literary-beltings.

    The Lost Art of Reading | Gerald Stanley Lee

British Dictionary definitions for belting

belting

/ (ˈbɛltɪŋ) /


noun
  1. the material used to make a belt or belts

  2. belts collectively

  1. informal a beating

adjective
  1. British informal excellent; first-class

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