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poultry handler's disease (medicine) and belt(1) (iou)


poultry handler's disease (medicine)


poultry handler's disease
Extrinsic allergic alveolitis similar to bird-breeder's lung, caused by inhalation of particulate emanations from domesticated fowl such as chickens and turkeys.


belt(1) (iou)



belt noun.

I.
A flat encircling strip of cloth, leather, etc., worn around the waist or from the shoulder to the opposite hip to support clothes, weapons, etc., or as a decorative accessory. OE.
chastity belt, suspender belt, etc. fig.: Shakespeare Macbeth He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause Within the belt of rule.
C. Boutell The sword..hung from a belt that passed over the shoulder. A. Powell He wore a loosely made camel's-hair overcoat, the unfastened belt of which trailed behind him. J. Steinbeck His jeans were held up by a wide harness-leather belt with a big square brass buckle.
b. spec. Such a belt worn as a mark of rank or distinction by an earl, knight, boxing champion, etc. LME.
Thackeray They fight each Other for the champion's belt and two hundred pounds a side.
c. spec. Such a belt used to support the figure; a suspender belt; a corset. L19.
R. Lehmann Etty wears..just her belt and knickers.
d. (W. specifying colour.) Such a belt indicating by its colour the wearer's level of proficiency in judo or karate; a person entitled to wear this. E20.
black belt, red belt, white belt, etc.
A broad strip or stripe of any kind, or a continuous series of objects, encircling something. M17.
Southey A level belt of ice which bound..The waters of the sleeping Ocean round. R. W. Emerson A belt of mirrors round a taper's flame. P. Moore Through a small telescope Jupiter shows as a yellowish, flattened disk, crossed by the streaks which we term belts.
A broad flexible strap. L17.
conveyor belt, safety-belt, seat-belt, etc.
b. A flexible strip for feeding a machine-gun with ammunition. L19.
An endless strap passing around wheels, rollers, etc., for communicating motion or for conveying articles or material. L18.
C. S. Forester The belt bore the peas steadily along to the farther drum. Reader's Digest Automobiles leaving the belt as finished products.
A broad band or stripe crossing a surface (esp. that of the earth) from which it is differentiated in some way; a zone or region of distinct character or occupancy. E19.
BIBLE Belt. green belt: see GREEN adjective.
A. B. Hart Illinois is divided into a wheat belt, a corn belt, and the city of Chicago. Tolkien A belt of tall and very ancient oaks. U. Le Guin The Green Mountains where it rained up to forty inches a year, the rain belt.
II.
The wool sheared from the hindquarters of a sheep. Now rare or obsolete. M17.
A heavy blow or stroke. L19.
Phrases: belt and braces fig. a policy of twofold Security. hit below the belt: see HIT verb. SAM BROWNE belt. tighten one's belt fig. (a) bear hunger philosophically; (b) introduce economies. under one's belt (a) (of Food) eaten or otherwise absorbed; (b) securely acquired. VAN ALLEN BELT.
Comb.: belt conveyor a conveyor belt; belt drive a driving mechanism powered by a flexible endless belt; belt line US a railway or tramline that encircles a city or metropolitan area; belt sander a sander with a motorized continuous belt of abrasive material running over rollers; belt-tightening fig. the introduction of rigorous economies; beltway N. Amer. a highway that encircles a city or metropolitan area, esp. (Beltway) that around Washington DC; (freq. attrib.) Washington as the seat of the US government.
beltless adjective LME.