welted

Verb (1)

welt (third-person singular simple present welts, present participle welting, simple past and past participle welted)

1. (intransitive, obsolete) To roll; revolve.

Verb (2)

welt (third-person singular simple present welts, present participle welting, simple past and past participle welted)

1. (transitive) To cause to have welts; to beat.
   • 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.1904 September, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “The Adventure of the Abbey Grange”, in The Return of Sherlock Holmes, New York, N.Y.: McClure, Phillips & Co., published February 1905, →OCLC
2. (transitive) To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.

Verb (3)

welt (third-person singular simple present welts, present participle welting, simple past and past participle welted)

1. (UK, archaic, dialectal, intransitive) To decay.
2. (UK, archaic, dialectal, intransitive) To become stringy.

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