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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun welt has 2 senses
- welt(n = noun.state) wale, weal, wheal - a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions; Array is a kind of harm, hurt, injury, trauma
- welt(n = noun.artifact) Array - a raised or strengthened seam; Array is a kind of seam
Derived form verb welt1
Derived form verb welt2
Verb welt has 2 senses
- welt(v = verb.contact) flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, whip - beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" is one way to beat, beat up, work over
- welt(v = verb.change) Array - put a welt on; "welt the shoes" is one way to add
Derived form noun welt1
Sample sentence:
They want to welt the prisoners
Derived form noun welt2
Sample sentence:
Somebody ----s something
CIDE DICTIONARY
welt, n. [OE. welte, probably fr. W. gwald a hem, a welt, gwaldu to welt or to hem.].
- That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it [1913 Webster]
- 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. [PJC]
- A blow that produces a welt{3}. [PJC]
welt, v. t.
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, v. t.
To wilt. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
welt, n. & v.
--n.
1 a leather rim sewn round the edge of a shoe-upper for the sole to be attached to.
2 = WEAL(1).
3 a ribbed or reinforced border of a garment; a trimming.
4 a heavy blow.
--v.tr.
1 provide with a welt.
2 rain welts on; thrash.
--n.
1 a leather rim sewn round the edge of a shoe-upper for the sole to be attached to.
2 = WEAL(1).
3 a ribbed or reinforced border of a garment; a trimming.
4 a heavy blow.
--v.tr.
1 provide with a welt.
2 rain welts on; thrash.
Etymology
ME welte, walt, of unkn. orig.
THESAURUS
welt
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, woundROGET THESAURUS
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Edge
N edge, verge, brink, brow, brim, margin, border, confine, skirt, rim, flange, side, mouth, jaws, chops, chaps, fauces, lip, muzzle, threshold, door, porch, portal, coast, shore, frame, fringe, flounce, frill, list, trimming, edging, skirting, hem, selvedge, welt, furbelow, valance, gimp, border, marginal, skirting, labial, labiated, marginated.
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