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Little Belt

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noun

  1. Danish name: Lille Bælt.  a strait in Denmark, between Jutland and Funen Island, linking the Kattegat with the Baltic. Length: about 48 km (30 miles). Width: up to 29 km (18 miles)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Guests watched from the platform onto the Petite Ceinture, or Little Belt, railway — a thirty-kilometer track circling the city.

From Seattle Times Jun. 22, 2022

Promotional material from Tintina mentions the potential for a mining district across a much broader area of the Little Belt Mountains, with enough copper to last 50 years.

From Washington Times Mar. 14, 2016

At the same time that the Little Belt was spanned, a new service of high speed streamlined trains was inaugurated.

From Time Magazine Archive

The frigate "President" met the British sloop-of-war "Little Belt," and hailed it, the captain calling through his trumpet, "What ship is that?"

From The Story of Our Country Every Child Can Read by Hurlbut, Jesse Lyman

APENRADE, a town of Germany in the Prussian province of Schleswig, beautifully situated on the Apenrade Fjord, an arm of the Little Belt, 38 m.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 2 "Anjar" to "Apollo" by Various

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