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welt

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Noun, Verb (transitive)

CIDE DICTIONARY

weltn. [OE. welte, probably fr. W. gwald a hem, a welt, gwaldu to welt or to hem.].
  •  That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it  [1913 Webster]
  •  A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A raised ridge on the surface of the skin, produced by a blow, as from a stick or whip; a wale; a weal; as, to raise welts on the back with a whip.  [PJC]
  •  A blow that produces a welt{3}.  [PJC]
Welt joint, a joint, as of plates, made with a welt, instead of by overlapping the edges. See Weld, n., 1 (d).
weltv. t. 
     To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve.  [1913 Webster]
weltv. t. 
     To wilt.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

welt, n. & v.
--n.
1 a leather rim sewn round the edge of a shoe-upper for the sole to be attached to.
2 = WEAL(1).
3 a ribbed or reinforced border of a garment; a trimming.
4 a heavy blow.
--v.tr.
1 provide with a welt.
2 rain welts on; thrash.

Etymology
ME welte, walt, of unkn. orig.

THESAURUS

welt

abscess, aposteme, bash, bat, beading, bed sore, belt, bilge, binding, birthmark, blackhead, blain, bleb, blemish, blister, blob, boil, bop, bordering, bordure, boss, bow, bubble, bubo, bulb, bulge, bulla, bump, bunch, bunion, burl, button, cahot, canker, canker sore, carbuncle, chancre, chancroid, check, chilblain, chine, cicatrix, clump, cold sore, comedo, condyle, convex, crack, crater, craze, defacement, defect, deformation, deformity, disfiguration, disfigurement, distortion, dowel, dress down, ear, edging, eschar, fault, felon, fester, festering, fever blister, fimbria, fimbriation, fistula, flange, flap, flaw, flax, flounce, freckle, frill, frilling, fringe, furbelow, furuncle, furunculus, gall, galloon, gathering, give a dressing-down, gnarl, gumboil, handle, hem, hemangioma, hemorrhoids, hickey, hide, hill, hump, hunch, jog, joggle, keloid, kibe, kink, knob, knot, knur, knurl, larrup, lather, leather, lentigo, lesion, lick, lip, list, loop, lump, milium, mole, motif, mountain, needle scar, nevus, nub, nubbin, nubble, paddle, papilloma, papula, papule, paronychia, parulis, peg, petechia, piles, pimple, pit, pock, pockmark, polyp, port-wine mark, port-wine stain, pound, pustule, rib, ridge, rift, ring, rising, ruffle, scab, scar, scratch, sebaceous cyst, selvage, shoulder, skirting, smack, smash, soft chancre, sore, spine, split, stigma, strawberry mark, stud, sty, style, suppuration, swelling, tab, tan, track, trim, trimming, tubercle, tubercule, twist, ulcer, ulceration, valance, verruca, vesicle, wale, wallop, warp, wart, weal, wen, whack, whale, wheal, whelk, whelp, whitehead, whitlow, wound

ROGET THESAURUS

welt

Edge

N edge, verge, brink, brow, brim, margin, border, confine, skirt, rim, flange, side, mouth, jaws, chops, chaps, fauces, lip, muzzle, threshold, door, porch, portal, coast, shore, frame, fringe, flounce, frill, list, trimming, edging, skirting, hem, selvedge, welt, furbelow, valance, gimp, border, marginal, skirting, labial, labiated, marginated.


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