welts

Noun

welt (plural welts)

1. A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow or insect bite.
   • 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.1851 June – 1852 April, Harriet Beecher Stowe, chapter XX, in Uncle Tom’s Cabin; or, Life among the Lowly, volume II, Boston, Mass.: John P[unchard] Jewett & Company; Cleveland, Oh.: Jewett, Proctor...

   Synonyms:

   wheal, weal

2. A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).
   • … round about a border of Purple Veluet, with Floure de luces of Gold, embrodred to the full, with a welt and bordure of Ermines foure fingers broad. / Vpon the last named cloath or Couerlet of St / …1623, André Favyn, The theater of honour and knight-hood […], book 10
   1. (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.
   2. A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.
      • [The] Mantle of this Order was of Skie-coloured Damask, having broad welt of Gold embroidered on the Collar, and [...]1672, Elias Ashmole, The institution, laws & ceremonies of the most noble Order of the Garter, chapter III, section 1
   3. In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
   4. In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.

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