Synonyms for welt
| Grammar : Noun |
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| Phonetic Transcription : wɛlt |
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Définition of welt
Origin :- early 15c., a shoemaker's term, perhaps related to Middle English welten "to overturn, roll over" (c.1300), from Old Norse velta "to roll" (related to welter (v.)). Meaning "ridge on the skin from a wound" is first recorded 1800.
- noun red mark
- "I'd probably hit him a welt and he'd go off bawlin' like a calf," he communed with himself.
- Extract from : « Si Klegg, Book 5 (of 6) » by John McElroy
- He might chance to strike where no words would efface the welt.
- Extract from : « That Boy Of Norcott's » by Charles James Lever
- Waldo was thinking of his father as he strode down the pass with that welt on his cheek.
- Extract from : « Peak and Prairie » by Anna Fuller
- Oncus -i: a welt: applied to welt-like ridges on caterpillars.
- Extract from : « Explanation of Terms Used in Entomology » by John. B. Smith
- Then if he monkeyed too much, why—I could welt him well after.
- Extract from : « Red Cap Tales » by Samuel Rutherford Crockett
- I was just goin' to welt the little captain a good one when I heard that.
- Extract from : « Sonnie-Boy's People » by James B. Connolly
- He looked after her, fingers caressing the welt that burned his cheek.
- Extract from : « Crooked Trails and Straight » by William MacLeod Raine
- "Welt over the head with a rifle-butt," whispered Dennis excitedly.
- Extract from : « With Haig on the Somme » by D. H. Parry
- Welting cord, a cord sewed into the welt or border of a garment.
- Extract from : « A Treatise on Domestic Economy » by Catherine Esther Beecher
- It don't take the ache out o' that welt on my arm and back any.
- Extract from : « Joyce's Investments » by Fannie E. Newberry
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