welt
welt is a 4-letter English word with 14 senses as noun, transitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it. Face value is 7 in Scrabble and 8 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it
- noun. 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.
- noun. A hem, border, or fringe.
- noun. In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole.
- noun. In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
- noun. In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
- noun. In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
- noun. A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
- transitive verb. To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve.
- transitive verb. To wilt.
- noun. a raised or strengthened seam
- noun. a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions
- verb. put a welt on
"welt the shoes"
- verb. beat severely with a whip or rod
"The teacher often flogged the students"
"The children were severely trounced"
Synonyms
wale, weal, wheal, flog, lash, lather, slash, strap, trounce, whip
Common word forms
welts, welted, welter, welting
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