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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Welt \Welt\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Welted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Welting}.] To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
welt \welt\ (w[e^]lt), noun [OE. welte, probably fr. W. gwald a hem, a welt, gwaldu to welt or to hem.]
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.
2. (Her.) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
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}, noun, 1 (d) .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Welt \Welt\, verb (used with an object) To wilt. [R.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
welt
noun
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
verb
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"
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
196 Moby Thesaurus words for "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, wound
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