welt
IPA: wˈɛɫt
noun
- A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow.
- (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.
- A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.
- In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
- In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
- In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
- (heraldry) 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.
- Any other feature resembling a welt (strip).
verb
- (intransitive, obsolete) To roll; revolve
- To cause to have welts; to beat.
- To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.
- (UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To decay.
- (UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To become stringy.
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