'Welt' definitions:
Definition of 'welt'
(from WordNet)
noun
A raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions [syn: wale, welt, weal, wheal]
noun
A raised or strengthened seam
verb
Beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" [syn: flog, welt, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce]
verb
Put a welt on; "welt the shoes"
Definition of 'Welt'
From: GCIDE
Definition of 'Welt'
From: GCIDE
- Welt \Welt\, v. t. To wilt. [R.] [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'welt'
From: GCIDE
- welt \welt\ (w[e^]lt), n. [OE. welte, probably fr. W. gwald a hem, a welt, gwaldu to welt or to hem.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it; as: (a) A small cord covered with cloth and sewed on a seam or border to strengthen it; an edge of cloth folded on itself, usually over a cord, and sewed down. (b) A hem, border, or fringe. [Obs.] (c) In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole. (d) In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint. (e) In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it. (f) In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Her.) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends. [1913 Webster]
- 3. 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.
- Syn: wale; weal; wheal. [PJC]
- 4. 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) . [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'welt'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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