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Bellyband

noun
1.
A cloth band that is worn around the waist (as on infants until the navel has healed).
2.
A strap around the belly of a draft animal holding the shafts of a wagon.





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"Bellyband" Quotes from Famous Books



... verily yus! An' y've 'eard o' Julius Caesar, an' Nebucha'nezzar, an' Florence Noightingyle, 'aven't you—you wich is chiefly bellyband and gullet." ...
— The Judgment House • Gilbert Parker
... occasions, for the order was imperative, and the father's arm was strong, and above the door hung a strap of no light weight, constituting as it had once done that portion of a horse's harness known technically as the bellyband. So the boys were always there, each at his particular chair, and Grant Harlson, who had been present at these orisons many a time, knew exactly where Alf's chair was, and the attitude he must occupy. It was close ...
— A Man and a Woman • Stanley Waterloo


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