Little Belt


noun
  1. 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): Danish name: Lille Bælt

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How to use Little Belt in a sentence

  • The boat slid over a Little Belt of still water through a wilderness of tall reeds.

    Joan of the Sword Hand | S(amuel) R(utherford) Crockett
  • On this the Little Belt fired, and a furious action commenced, which lasted upwards of half-an-hour, with a short intermission.

  • Captain Bingham inquired why he had fired at all; on which the lieutenant replied that the Little Belt had fired first.

  • They stood only a few feet apart, a Little Belt of white verbena fluttering flags of truce between them.

    A Speckled Bird | Augusta J. Evans Wilson
  • The sloop was the Little Belt, the last of the British fleet to surrender, after a vain attempt to escape.

    The Land We Live In | Henry Mann