welt

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim A surname from German.
2. fiil To roll; revolve.
3. isim A ridge or lump on the skin, as caused by a blow.

   “When she saw, on the back and shoulders of the child, great welts and calloused spots, ineffaceable marks of the system under which she had grown up thus far, her heart became pitiful within her.”

4. isim A strip, especially one around the edge of something (for example, in some old heraldry).

   “… round about a border of Purple Veluet, with Floure de luces of Gold, embrodred to the full, with a welt and bordure of Ermines foure fingers broad. / Vpon the last named cloath or Couerlet of St / …”

5. isim A strip of leather set into the seam between the outsole of a shoe and the upper, through which these parts are joined by stitching or stapling.
6. isim A strip of material or covered cord applied to a seam or garment edge to strengthen or cover it.

   “[The] Mantle of this Order was of Skie-coloured Damask, having broad welt of Gold embroidered on the Collar, and [...]”

7. isim In steam boilers and sheet-iron work, a strip riveted upon the edges of plates that form a butt joint.
8. isim In carpentry, a strip of wood fastened over a flush seam or joint, or an angle, to strengthen it.
9. isim In machine-made stockings, a strip, or flap, of which the heel is formed.
10. isim A shoe made with a welt (strip of leather set into the seam).

    “Previous to the fifties, most of the shoes made were welts, or spring heels, and later most of the work changed to turns or "runrounds" as they were called.”

11. fiil To cause to have welts; to beat.

    “Well, gentlemen, I was standing with her just inside the window, in all innocence, as God is my judge, when he rushed like a madman into the room, called her the vilest name that a man could use to a woman, and welted her across the face with the stick he had in his hand.”

12. fiil To install welt (a welt or welts) to reinforce.
13. fiil To decay.
14. fiil To become stringy.