The Collaborative Dictionary

Welt \Welt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Welted; p. pr. & vb. n. Welting.] To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve. [1913 Webster]

welt \welt\ (w[e^]lt), n. [OE. welte, probably fr. W. gwald a hem, a welt, gwaldu to welt or to hem.] [1913 Webster]

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]

(Her.) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends. [1913 Webster]

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]

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]

Welt \Welt\, v. t. To wilt. [R.] [1913 Webster]

Word Net

welt

1 a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions [syn: wale, weal, wheal]

2 a raised or strengthened seam

1 beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" [syn: flog, whip, lather, lash, slash, strap, trounce]

2 put a welt on; "welt the shoes"

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

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English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɛlt

Etymology

c.1425, a shoemaker's term. Meaning "ridge on the skin from a wound" first recorded 1800.

Noun

1. A raised mark on the body caused by a blow; a wheal.
2. In the context of "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. A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.

Dutch

Verb

welt

1. third person singular present tense of wellen, opwellen

Welt may refer to:

• Die Welt, a German national newspaper (The world)
• Wheal (aka Welt) a type of skin lesion
• Welt (shoe), a part of a shoe
• Welt (album), an album by ohGr
• A ridge or wale on the surface of the body, as from a blow of a stick or whip
• Welt, Germany, a village in Northern Germany
• Welt (magazine), an online magazine related to the sport of paintball