welt

Signification (Anglais)

1. A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow.
2. 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. A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.
4. In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
5. In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
6. In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
7. 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.
8. Any other feature resembling a welt (strip).

enflure

prospérité

strath mark

line of fate

skin irritation

cross welt

welted edge

belabour

Fréquence

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/wɛlt/

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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