welt

Meaning

Noun

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).

Verb

To roll; revolve

Verb

1. To cause to have welts; to beat.
2. To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.

Verb

1. To decay.
2. To become stringy.

Synonyms

weal

wheal

wale

scar

flog

lash

whip

fringe

bruise

lump

edging

trounce

border

beat

rim

thrash

wart

margin

stripe

edge

periphery

facing

strap

slash

hem

lather

flounce

beat up

seam

streak

strip

swelling

thresh

thrum

tumor

wayside

weals

wen

wound

strath mark

line of fate

skin irritation

cross welt

bangs

welted edge

baste

belabor

belabour

binding

boil

brutalise

bump

callus

channel

cicatrice

club

fluting

furbelow

furrow

gash

groove

horsewhip

lam

landmark

line

paddle

piping

quirk

rand

rut

selvage

skirt

sore

Pronounced as (IPA)

/wɛlt/

Etymology

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.