welt

name

1. A surname from German.

verb

1. (intransitive, obsolete)To roll; revolve.
2. (transitive)To cause to have welts; to beat.

   “Well, gentlemen, I was standing with her just inside the window, in all innocence, as God is my judge, when he rushed like a madman into the room, called her the vilest name that a man could use to a woman, and welted her across the face with the stick he had in his hand.”

   “"Cover your scut, or I'll welt the skin off it."”

3. (transitive)To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.
4. (UK, archaic, dialectal, intransitive)To decay.
5. (UK, archaic, dialectal, intransitive)To become stringy.

noun

1. A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow.

   “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.”

   “[…] I am sure of one thing,—scars are plenty enough in Germany, among the young men; and very grim ones they are, too. They criss-cross the face in angry red welts, and are permanent and ineffaceable.”

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

2. A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).

   “… round about a border of Purple Veluet, with Floure de luces of Gold, embrodred to the full, with a welt and bordure of Ermines foure fingers broad. / Vpon the last named cloath or Couerlet of St / …”

   “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, […]”

   ““The neighborhood is officially called Mid-City, but it is often referred to as Crenshaw. The area is wide and bright, a grid of small streets crisscrossed with boulevards and the welt of the I-10 freeway running along its southern edge.””

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).

   “[The] Mantle of this Order was of Skie-coloured Damask, having broad welt of Gold embroidered on the Collar, and [...]”

   “[…] surmounted of another Azure: but in my Judgment, it rather represents a Hem, or Welt of a Belt, or an Edg of Silver, than two Belts one upon another; which the Bend properly signifie […]”

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).

   “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.”

   “Nathan D. Chase, a well-to-do boss who accumulated enough wealth to retire in 1850 at middle age, observed that the prices for making shoes remained low from 1837 to 1842: 4 cents for red-bottomed cacks, 8 cents for women's turned slippers, 10 cents for thick-heeled runrounds, 12 cents for set heels, 20 cents for welts.”