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   welt (wĕlt), n. [OE. welte, probably fr. W. gwald a hem, a welt, gwaldu to welt or to hem.]
   
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   1. That which, being sewed or otherwise fastened to an edge or border, serves to guard, strengthen, or adorn it; as: (a) 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.  (b) A hem, border, or fringe. [Obs.] (c) In shoemaking, a narrow strip of leather around a shoe, between the upper leather and sole.  (d) In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.  (e) In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.  (f) In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
   
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   2. (Her.) A narrow border, as of an ordinary, but not extending around the ends.
   
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   3. A raised ridge on the surface of the skin, produced by a blow, as from a stick or whip; a wale; a weal; as, “to raise welts on the back with a whip”.
   
   Syn. -- wale; weal; wheal.
   
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   4. A blow that produces a welt3.
   
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   Welt joint, a joint, as of plates, made with a welt, instead of by overlapping the edges.  See Weld, n., 1 (d).
   
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   Welt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Welted; p. pr. & vb. n. Welting.] To furnish with a welt; to sew or fasten a welt on; as, “to welt a boot or a shoe; to welt a sleeve”.
   
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   Welt, v. t. To wilt.  [R.]
   
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