[? short for belted, f. prec.; sense 5. Cf. BELT sb.3] (See quot.)
1614. Markham, Cheap Husb., III. xvii. (1668), 91. A sheep is said to be Tag’d or Belt, when by a continual squirt running out of his ordure he berayeth his tail, in such wise, that through the heat of the dung it scaldeth, and breedeth the scab therein. [So in 1741 Compl. Fam. Piece, III. 494.]
