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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

Ten days later occurred the collision between the commodore's ship, the President, and the British corvette Little Belt.

From Admiral Farragut by A. T. (Alfred Thayer) Mahan

The English sloop Little Belt is cruising off Cape Henry in May of 1811, looking for a French privateer, when a sail appears over the sea.

From Canada: the Empire of the North Being the Romantic Story of the New Dominion's Growth from Colony to Kingdom by Agnes C. (Agnes Christina) Laut

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