Word Meaning

Meaning of "welt" and the crossword clue

- Contusion
- Mark from a whip
- Raised mark from a whip, e.g.
- Raised mark on the skin
- Skin swelling
- The odds, when late, of getting lash mark
- Weal
- Whip mark
- That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it
- 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.
- A hem, border, or fringe.
- In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole.
- In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
- In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
- In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
- A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
- To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve.
- To wilt.