noun, verb
noun (plural bellies)
1 the part of the body below the chest
SYNSTOMACH, GUT:
They crawled along on their bellies.
seealsoBEERBELLY, POTBELLY
2 (literary) the round or curved part of an object:
the belly of a ship
3 (-bellied) (in adjectives) having the type of belly mentioned:
swollen-bellied * round-bellied
verb (bellies, bellying, bellied, bellied) [V] ~ (out) (especially of sails) to fill with air and become rounder:
The sails bellied out in the wind.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for belly is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does belly appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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