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Welt
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- 1 A surname from German.
- 1 A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow.
"When she saw, on the back and shoulders of the child, great welts and calloused spots, ineffaceable marks of the system under which she had grown up thus far, her heart became pitiful within her."
- 2 a raised or strengthened seam wordnet
- 3 A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
"… round about a border of Purple Veluet, with Floure de luces of Gold, embrodred to the full, with a welt and bordure of Ermines foure fingers broad. / Vpon the last named cloath or Couerlet of St / … 1688, Randle Holme, The academy of armory, book 1, chapter IV, "Of the Bend divers ways": Therefore this may be taken for an Observation, that an edg, or hem, or welt, only runs on the sides of the Ordinary; but the Border invirons, or goeth clear round the same, […]"
- 4 a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions wordnet
- 5 A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).; A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling.
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- 6 A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).; A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.
"[The] Mantle of this Order was of Skie-coloured Damask, having broad welt of Gold embroidered on the Collar, and [...]"
- 7 A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).; In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
- 8 A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).; In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
- 9 A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).; In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
- 10 A shoe made with a welt (strip of leather set into the seam). obsolete
"Previous to the fifties, most of the shoes made were welts, or spring heels, and later most of the work changed to turns or "runrounds" as they were called."
- 1 To roll; revolve intransitive, obsolete
- 2 To cause to have welts; to beat.
"Well, gentlemen, I was standing with her just inside the window, in all innocence, as God is my judge, when he rushed like a madman into the room, called her the vilest name that a man could use to a woman, and welted her across the face with the stick he had in his hand."
- 3 To decay. UK, archaic, dialectal, intransitive
- 4 put a welt on wordnet
- 5 To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.
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- 6 To become stringy. UK, archaic, dialectal, intransitive
- 7 beat severely with a whip or rod wordnet
Etymology
Borrowed from German Welt.
From Middle English welten, from Old English weltan, wieltan, from Proto-Germanic *waltijaną, from Proto-Indo-European *wel- (“to turn; wind; twist”). Cognate with German wälzen, Danish vælte, Swedish välta, Icelandic velta.
Circa 1425, a shoemaker's term. Perhaps related to Middle English welten (“to overturn, roll over”), from Old Norse velta (“to roll”). Meaning "ridge on the skin from a wound" first recorded 1800.
Circa 1425, a shoemaker's term. Perhaps related to Middle English welten (“to overturn, roll over”), from Old Norse velta (“to roll”). Meaning "ridge on the skin from a wound" first recorded 1800.
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