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welt

(wĕlt)

1. A strip, as of leather or other material, stitched into a shoe between the sole and the upper.

2. A tape or covered cord sewn into a seam as reinforcement or trimming.

a. A ridge or bump on the skin caused by a lash or blow or sometimes by an allergic reaction.

b. A lash or blow producing such a mark.

tr.v. welt·ed, welt·ing, welts

1. To reinforce or trim with a welt.

2. To beat severely; flog.

3. To raise welts or a welt on.

[Middle English welte.]

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welt

(wɛlt)

1. (Knitting & Sewing) a raised or strengthened seam or edge, sewn in or on a knitted garment

2. (Pathology) another word for weal¹

3. (Clothing & Fashion) (in shoemaking) a strip of leather, etc, put in between the outer sole and the inner sole and upper

vb (tr)

4. (Knitting & Sewing) to put a welt in (a garment, etc)

5. to beat or flog soundly

[C15: origin unknown]

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welt

(wɛlt)

n.

1. a ridge or wale on the surface of the body, as from a blow of a stick or whip.

2. a blow producing such a ridge or wale.

a. a strip, as of leather, to which the edges of the insole and upper of a shoe are attached, the whole then being joined to the outsole.

b. a strip, usu. of leather, that ornaments a shoe.

4. a strip of material sewn along the edge of a garment, etc., for strength or as decoration.

v.t.

5. to beat soundly, as with a stick or whip.

6. to furnish or supply (a shoe or garment) with welts.

[1375–1425; welte, walt shoemaker's welt, Old English wælt (thigh) sinew]

welt

Past participle: welted
Gerund: welting

Imperative
welt
welt

Present
I welt
you welt
he/she/it welts
we welt
you welt
they welt

Preterite
I welted
you welted
he/she/it welted
we welted
you welted
they welted

Present Continuous
I am welting
you are welting
he/she/it is welting
we are welting
you are welting
they are welting

Present Perfect
I have welted
you have welted
he/she/it has welted
we have welted
you have welted
they have welted

Past Continuous
I was welting
you were welting
he/she/it was welting
we were welting
you were welting
they were welting

Past Perfect
I had welted
you had welted
he/she/it had welted
we had welted
you had welted
they had welted

Future
I will welt
you will welt
he/she/it will welt
we will welt
you will welt
they will welt

Future Perfect
I will have welted
you will have welted
he/she/it will have welted
we will have welted
you will have welted
they will have welted

Future Continuous
I will be welting
you will be welting
he/she/it will be welting
we will be welting
you will be welting
they will be welting

Present Perfect Continuous
I have been welting
you have been welting
he/she/it has been welting
we have been welting
you have been welting
they have been welting

Future Perfect Continuous
I will have been welting
you will have been welting
he/she/it will have been welting
we will have been welting
you will have been welting
they will have been welting

Past Perfect Continuous
I had been welting
you had been welting
he/she/it had been welting
we had been welting
you had been welting
they had been welting

Conditional
I would welt
you would welt
he/she/it would welt
we would welt
you would welt
they would welt

Past Conditional
I would have welted
you would have welted
he/she/it would have welted
we would have welted
you would have welted
they would have welted

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Noun	1.	welt - a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions wale, weal, wheal harm, hurt, injury, trauma - any physical damage to the body caused by violence or accident or fracture etc.
	2.	welt - a raised or strengthened seam seam - joint consisting of a line formed by joining two pieces
Verb	1.	welt - beat severely with a whip or rod; "The teacher often flogged the students"; "The children were severely trounced" flog, lash, lather, trounce, whip, slash, strap beat up, work over, beat - give a beating to; subject to a beating, either as a punishment or as an act of aggression; "Thugs beat him up when he walked down the street late at night"; "The teacher used to beat the students" flagellate, scourge - whip; "The religious fanatics flagellated themselves" leather - whip with a leather strap horsewhip - whip with a whip intended for horses switch - flog with or as if with a flexible rod cowhide - flog with a cowhide cat - beat with a cat-o'-nine-tails birch - whip with a birch twig
	2.	welt - put a welt on; "welt the shoes" add - make an addition (to); join or combine or unite with others; increase the quality, quantity, size or scope of; "We added two students to that dorm room"; "She added a personal note to her letter"; "Add insult to injury"; "Add some extra plates to the dinner table"

welt

noun mark, scar, ridge, streak, stripe, weal, wheal, wale, contusion He had a red welt on the side of his face where Pringle's blow had landed.

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welt

noun

1. A ridge or bump raised on the flesh, as by a lash or blow:

wale, weal, wheal, whelk.

2. A sudden sharp, powerful stroke:

bang, blow, clout, crack, hit, lick, pound, slug, sock, swat, thwack, whack, wham, whop.

Informal: bash, biff, bop, clip, wallop.

Slang: belt, conk, paste.

Translations

حاشِيَه

kantebånd

Borte Quaddel

brydding, ræma

cordone guardolo livido

apmalenošuve

snorkanting

lem

kenar şeridi

贴边

welt

[welt]

A. N

1. (= weal) → verdugón m

2. [of garment] → ribete m

3. [of shoe] → vira f

B. VT

1. [+ shoe] → poner vira a

2. (= beat) → pegar, zurrar

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

welt

[ˈwɛlt] n (= weal) → marque f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

welt

(of shoe) → Rahmen m; (of pullover) → Bündchen nt

(= weal) → Striemen m

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

welt

[wɛlt] n (bruise) → livido

welt

(welt) noun

a band or strip fastened to an edge of an article of clothing for strength or for ornament.

welt

n. verdugón, roncha.

welt

n verdugo

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"'O the blazing tropic night, when the wake's a welt of light That holds the hot sky tame, And the steady forefoot snores through the planet-powdered floors Where the scared whale flukes in flame.

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Rostov waved his cap above his head like the German and ctied laughing, "Und vivat die ganze Welt!" Though neither the German cleaning his cowshed nor Rostov back with his platoon from foraging for hay had any reason for rejoicing, they looked at each other with joyful delight and brotherly love, wagged their heads in token of their mutual affection, and parted smiling, the German returning to his cowshed and Rostov going to the cottage he occupied with Denisov.

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It was some minutes before I came to, and then I opened my eyes just in time to see Sir Gareth fetch him an awful welt, and I uncon- sciously out with the prayer, "I hope to gracious he's killed!" But by ill-luck, before I had got half through with the words, Sir Gareth crashed into Sir Sagramor le Desirous and sent him thundering over his horse's crupper, and Sir Sagramor caught my remark and thought I meant it for HIM.

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went the stick on the back of the other's head, raising such a welt that the blood came.

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They crisscross the face in angry red welts, and are permanent and ineffaceable.

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Little low hedges, round, like welts, with some pretty pyramids, I like well; and in some places, fair columns upon frames of carpenter's work.

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I welted the little devil with the slack end of the rope for it, but it was done, and I could not undo it again."

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I was all over welts. He got to going away so much, too, and locking me in.

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As he turned and staggered into a clinch, the welts of oozing blood, from his contacts with the ropes, showed in red bars.

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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.

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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.

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(29.) hierauB komme der Mensch / ein Herrscher aller Ding / und eine Zier der gantzen Welt." Ibid., 437.