welt

Noun

1. A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow.
2. A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
3. A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
4. A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
5. A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
6. A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
7. A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
8. (obsolete) A shoe made with a welt (strip of leather set into the seam).

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. (UK, archaic, dialectal, intransitive) To decay.
2. (UK, archaic, dialectal, intransitive) To become stringy.

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.

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

Translations

κέντημα

βούρδουλα

çıta

prospérité

obrzeże

roncha

Rahmen

Quaddel

vira

🎯

enflure

zébrure

Beule

açoitar

habón

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