belt tracks

Noun

belt track (plural belt tracks)

1. A continuous track used to propel vehicles that drive on difficult terrain.
   • It has been found that by simply substituting a belt track for an undercarriage with wheels in tandem, the unit load on the ground can be halved without increasing the bulk of the undercarriage.1954, Interavia - Volume 9, page 630
2. A railroad track the traces a path around a city or other area.
   • The roadbed of this company (the Shreveport & Red River Valley Railroad Company) being entirely within the state of Louisiana, if it is required to pay the sum of $330,000, or an amount necessarily expended in the construction of the belt track down to Henderson street, it would be practically...1904, Thomas H. Thorpe, Charles G. Gill, Louisiana Reports, page 921
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see belt, track.; a track used in for aligning and controlling a belt, such as a conveyor belt.
   • The graph of the actual abrasion time of the cotton canvas reference material against the number of samples abraded on the belt track is used to provide the reference abrasion time for canvas.1996, James S. Johnson, Seymour Zack Mansdorf, Performance of Protective Clothing, page 63