welt

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A strip, as of leather or other material, stitched into a shoe between the sole and the upper.
2. n. A tape or covered cord sewn into a seam as reinforcement or trimming.
3. n. A ridge or bump on the skin caused by a lash or blow or sometimes by an allergic reaction.
4. n. A lash or blow producing such a mark.
5. v. To reinforce or trim with a welt.
6. v. To beat severely; flog.
7. v. To raise welts or a welt on.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To roll; revolve.
2. n. An applied hem, selvage, bordering, or fringe; especially, a strengthening or ornamenting strip of material fastened along an edge, or over or between two joined edges, often forming a rounded ridge by the insertion of a cord or the doubling outward of the material.
3. n. Specifically— In a heraldic achievement, a narrow border to an ordinary or charge.
4. n. A strip of material sewed round or along an open edge, as of a glove.
5. n. A strip of leather in a boot or shoe sewed round the edge of the conjoined upper leather and inner sole, preparatory to the attachment of the bottom or outer sole. See cut under boot.
6. n. In carpentry, a strip forming an additional thickness laid over a flush seam or joint, or placed in an angle, to strengthen it, as in a carvel-built vessel.
7. n. In sheet-iron work, a strip riveted to two contiguous plates forming a butt-joint.
8. n. In knitting:
9. n. One of the ribs at an end of the work, intended to prevent it from rolling up, as around the opening or top of a sock.
10. n. A separate flap, as a heel-piece, on any piece of work made in a knitting-machine. It is made independently of the work, and afterward knitted on.
11. n. Hence A low superficial ridge or linear swelling, as on the skin; a weal or wale: as, to raise welts on a person or an animal by blows with a whip. See welt, v. t, 2.
12. To fix a welt or welts to or in; furnish or ornament with any thing called a welt: as, to welt shoes.
13. To beat severely with a whip or stick, where by welts may be raised. See welt, n., 2.
14. To wilt; wither; become soft or flabby, as from decay; become ropy or stringy, as some liquors.
15. Preterit of walt.

Wiktionary

1. n. A raised mark on the body caused by a blow; a wheal or weal.
2. n. shoemaking A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling.
3. n. A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.
4. v. To cause to have welts, to beat.
5. v. To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. obsolete, obsolete That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it.
2. n. obsolete, obsolete 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.
3. n. obsolete A hem, border, or fringe.
4. n. In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole.
5. n. In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
6. n. In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
7. n. In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
8. n. (Her.) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
9. n. A raised ridge on the surface of the skin, produced by a blow, as from a stick or whip; a wale; a weal.
10. n. A blow that produces a welt{3}.
11. v. To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on.
12. v. rare To wilt.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. beat severely with a whip or rod
2. n. a raised or strengthened seam
3. n. a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions
4. v. put a welt on