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welt

See also: Welt

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Etymology 1

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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.

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welt (third-person singular simple present welts, present participle welting, simple past and past participle welted)

  1. (intransitive, obsolete) To roll; revolve
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Etymology 2

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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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welt (plural welts)

  1. A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow.
    Synonyms: wheal, weal
  2. (shoemaking) 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.
  3. (obsolete, shoemaking) A shoe made with a welt.
    • 1912, The Register of the Lynn Historical Society:
      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.
    • 1981, Paul Gustaf Faler, Mechanics and Manufacturers in the Early Industrial Revolution, page 91:
      Nathan D. Chase, a well-to-do boss who accumulated enough wealth to retire in 1850 at middle age, observed that the prices for making shoes remained low from 1837 to 1842: 4 cents for red-bottomed cacks, 8 cents for women's turned slippers, 10 cents for thick-heeled runrounds, 12 cents for set heels, 20 cents for welts.
  4. A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.
    • 1672, Elias Ashmole, The institution, laws & ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter, chapter III, section 1:
      [The] Mantle of this Order was of Skie-coloured Damask, having broad welt of Gold embroidered on the Collar, and [...]
    • 1688, Randle Holme, The academy of armory, book 1, chapter IV, "Of the Bend divers ways":
      […] surmounted of another Azure: but in my Judgment, it rather represents a Hem, or Welt of a Belt, or an Edg of Silver, than two Belts one upon another; which the Bend properly signifie […]
  5. In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
  6. In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
  7. In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
  8. (heraldry) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, especially one which does not extend all the way around the ends of it (where it touches the edges of the shield) as a fimbriation would.
    • 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, […]
  9. Any other feature resembling a welt (strip).
    • 2018, Susan Orlean, chapter 6, in The Library Book:
      “The neighborhood is officially called Mid-City, but it is often referred to as Crenshaw. The area is wide and bright, a grid of small streets crisscrossed with boulevards and the welt of the I-10 freeway running along its southern edge.”
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raised mark on the body
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welt (third-person singular simple present welts, present participle welting, simple past and past participle welted)

  1. To cause to have welts; to beat.
  2. To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.
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  • (heraldry):
    1830, Thomas Robson, The British herald, or Cabinet of armorial bearings of the nobility & gentry of Great Britain & Ireland:
    WELT, or EDGE, a narrow bordure to an ordinary or charge: it differs from the fimbriation, as a cross, &c. should have the fimbriation all round it, showing itself where it joins the outer part of the shield, which the welt does not, when the ordinary touches or is attached to the outer part of the escutcheon.

Etymology 3

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welt (third-person singular simple present welts, present participle welting, simple past and past participle welted)

  1. (UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To decay.
  2. (UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To become stringy.
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welt

  1. inflection of wellen:
    1. second/third-person singular present indicative
    2. (archaic) plural imperative

Middle English

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welt

  1. Alternative form of welthe
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