Belts of leather or canvas to hold small-arm cartridges, worn over the shoulder.
The beltswhich support the arms, pouch, or pouches of a soldier.
Belts and downstretching lines of snow shone out sternly on their darkened summits; a shadowy half-moon rose above them in the southeast, and the strange luminous night lit up the little hamlet of Eide, almost light like day, as we landed.
When the almond trees are in bloom, the eucalyptus belts are perhaps most superb of all, with their dark spears and plumes waving above and around the white and rosy acres.
The rope of the swing was speedily secured, and several cadet belts were placed around Ritter's waist and under his arms.
The bully was lowered and the rope and beltswere loosened.
Then the rope was run under thesebelts and the other end was thrown over the limb of a big tree.
He looked around at the dozen shadowy figures gathering in the carrefour; the star-light sparkled on guns and belts and slings, and here and there on the vizor of a casquette-de-chasse.
It was Schultz the herdsman; his rifle was in his hand and he wore two cartridge-belts crossed over his smock en bandouliere.
I ordered him to form his brigade, stack arms, hang the belts on the muskets, and stand waiting for orders.
Grey shirts and trousers and caps, brown and blue striped stockings, and grey webbed belts comprised the outfit and the price was four dollars and a quarter.
During the lull, the besieged filled their beltswith what good ammunition there was--ten rounds per man.
Strapping their belts around their waists to hold up their drawers, the worthy pair stepped to the rail of the Maggie.
Two broad belts of the solar surface, as we have seen, are frequented by them, of which the limits may be put at 6° and 35° of north and south latitude.
The rapid changes in the cloud-belts both of Jupiter and Saturn, he remarked, attest a high internal temperature.
The Washington 26-inch refractor disclosed to him, under exceptionally favourable conditions, a set of equatorial belts on the disc of Neptune, and they took just the direction prescribed by theory.
Some threshermen carry an extra set of belts to be ready in case anything does break, and they assert that they save money by so doing.
From what cause do belts have the power to drive shafting?
Rubber belts will be greatly improved if they are covered with a mixture of black lead and litharge, equal parts, mixed with boiled oil, and just enough japan to dry them quickly.
When leather belts become hard they should be softened with neatsfoot oil.
The successive belts may then be put on one at a time, until the stacker belt is put on after its pulleys have been oiled.
Especially note which belts are to run crossed--usually the main belt and the stacker belt.
Tight belts have been known to break the end of a shaft off, and always cause unnecessary friction.
This lacing lasts two or three times as long with such belts as any other, for the reason that the string is not exposed to wear and there is no straining in passing round pulleys.
The care of the belting is one of the most important things about the management of a threshing machine, and success or failure will depend largely on the condition in which the belts are kept.
Rubber belts must be run with the seam on the outside.
New belts stretch a good deal, and the ends of the lacing should not be cut off short till the stretch is taken out of the belts.
Belts on a separator should be looked over every day, and when any lacing is worn, it should be renewed at once.
The younger boy had to finally climb into the overturned automobile, cling with one hand and his feet to the car, and buckle an end of the string of belts around Maxey’s waist.
I can jump into the top of one of those trees, and I’ll carry the line of belts down, fasten it to the tree, and then to Maxey, and swing him off.
The rescuer tossed the end of the line of belts to Monroe and Brace Henderson, and they helped Maxey out upon the roadway again.
It is said that leather driving-belts made as they usually are of weakly tanned leather, when kept in glycerin for twenty-four hours are not so liable to fray.
These vessels are surrounded with belts of iron, in case of the occurrence of fracture.
There were belts of shadow among the trees; he got entangled among nut bushes and thickets, but creeping on toward the house, he reached a more open space and found a hollow nearly filled with withered leaves.
They went down into the valley, struggling through belts of timber and clumps of brush, until they reached a broad expanse of grass broken by small bluffs.
The route led up through belts of brush and between scattered pines, and leaving it inadvertently every now and then, they got entangled among the scrub.
I had made provision for doubling it, putting on two belts instead of one.
Suddenly a great strain in only 95 fathoms of water - belts surging and general dismay; grapnels being thrown out in the hope of finding what holds the cable.
Buck tails hung from their old hats and from their belts swung tomahawks and scalping knives.
He taught his boy to use his hands, for Samuel tells that as a boy, he wove garters, belts and shot pouches.
We had also to let our ammunition belts go and held on only to our guns.
Our ammunition belts had perforce been abandoned with our knapsacks and were at the bottom of the Ægean.
Long, trailing skirts, shirt-waists with abbreviated sleeves and belts with showy buckles.
Dense vapors arise from a highly heated interior and spread out into belts parallel to the equator in the direction of the planet's rotation.
Saturn as well as Jupiter is marked by belts parallel to the Equator though they appear more indistinct than those of Jupiter on account of the greater distance of Saturn.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "belts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
