Welt

Quick meaning: Welt is a verb meaning (intransitive, obsolete) To roll; revolve.

Meaning

(intransitive, obsolete) To roll; revolve.

More Meanings

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. (transitive) To cause to have welts; to beat.
4. (transitive) To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.
5. (UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To decay.
6. (UK, dialect, archaic, intransitive) To become stringy.
7. (obsolete, shoemaking) A shoe made with a welt (strip of leather set into the seam).

Example Sentences

She was nearly four feet long, with a large welt on her shell, which was encrusted with ancient-looking barnacles.

Previous to the fifties, most of the shoes made were welts, or spring heels, and later most of the work changed to turns or "runrounds" as they were called.

Therefore this may be taken for an Observation, that an edg, or hem, or welt, only runs on the sides of the Ordinary; but the Border invirons, or goeth clear round the same, […]

When she saw, on the back and shoulders of the child, great welts and calloused spots, ineffaceable marks of the system under which she had grown up thus far, her heart became pitiful within her.

Word Forms

• welts
• welting
• welted

Synonyms for welt

Depending on context, synonyms include wheal, weal, trounce, lash, whip, strap.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include slash, trounce, flog, lash, whip, strap.

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