Belted

ppl. a. [f. BELT v., sb.¹]

  1.  Wearing, or girded with, a belt; spec. as describing the distinctive cincture of an earl or knight (cf. BELT sb.¹ 1 b); fastened on by means of a belt.

1483.  Cath. Angl., 27/1. Beltyd, zonatus, cinctus.

c. 1565.  R. Lindsay, Cron. Scotl., 17 (Jam.). This Willame was the sixt belted earle of the hous of Douglas.

1795.  Burns, ‘A Man’s a Man.’ A prince can mak a belted knight.

1805.  Scott, Last Minstrel, I. iv. With belted sword and spur on heel. Ibid. (1820), Abbot, ii. Were he himself the son of a belted earl.

  2.  Furnished with a belt or belts of any kind; marked by belts or bands of distinctive color, etc. Belted cattle: black cattle of Dutch origin with a broad band of white round the middle.

1785.  Cowper, Tiroc., 633. The moons of Jove and Saturn’s belted ball.

1844.  Marryat, Settlers in Canada, I. ix. 150. The belted kingfisher darted up and down over the running stream.

1884.  Pall Mall Gaz., 8 Dec., 5/1. Construction of five belted cruisers of the Mersey type.