Great, a famous strait of Denmark between the island of Zeeland and that of Tunen, at the entrance of the Baltic sea. It is not however so commodious, nor so much frequented, as the sound. In 1658 the whole strait was frozen so hard, that Charles Gustavus king of Sweden marched over it with a design to take Copenhagen.

Lesser, lies to the west of the great belt, between the island of Funen and the coast of Jutland. It is one of the passages from the German ocean to the Baltic, though not three miles in breadth, and very crooked.

the military art, a leathern girdle for sustaining the arms, &c. of a soldier.