Found 3 items, similar to welt.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: welt
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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: welt
welt
n 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
welt
v 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”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: welt
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]