Dictionary Entry
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.
4 letters · Scrabble 7 · Words With Friends 8 · 14 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
A hem, border, or fringe.
- 4noun
In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole.
- 5noun
In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
- 6noun
In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
- 7noun
In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
- 8noun
A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
- 9transitive 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.
- 10transitive verb
To wilt.
- 11noun
a raised or strengthened seam
- 12noun
a raised mark on the skin (as produced by the blow of a whip); characteristic of many allergic reactions
- 13verb
put a welt on
"welt the shoes"
- 14verb
beat severely with a whip or rod
"The teacher often flogged the students"
"The children were severely trounced"
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