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welted, ppl. a.|ˈwɛltɪd|
Also 8 whelted.
[f. welt v.1 or n. + -ed.]
1. a. Furnished with a welt as a border or edging. Of a gown, etc.: Adorned or trimmed with ‘welts’ (hence of a person with reference to this). ? Obs.
Freq. in 16th cent. in const. welted with.
(a)c1507in Etoniana (1865) 214 Servants cots of black cotton welted with yelowe. 1540Test. Ebor. (Surtees) VI. 111 My blake gowne of cloth weltede with velvet. 1592Greene Upst. Courtier G 1, I saw fiue fat fellowes all in damaske cotes and gowns welted with Veluet very braue. 1679Lond. Gaz. No. 1378/4 A Bar Gown faced and welted with Velvet.
fig.1631J. Burges Answ. Rejoined 435 It stands..welted and guarded with so many reasons.
(b)1595Lodge Fig for Momus Sat. iv. E 4, They say thy welted gowne, and ruffes of lawne, When thou wert warden last was but a pawne. 1606Dekker Newes fr. Hell Wks. (Grosart) II. 137 Hee shall meet a number there, who once went in black veluet coats, and welted gownes. 1606― Seven Deadly Sins 10 The welted Vsurer, and the politick Bankrupt. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. xii. 157 When in your gowne (not a Clericall habit of any Learning) but welted and crosse-lac'd.
b. Of boots or boot-soles: Furnished with a welt. welted work: the making of welted boots.
1895Daily News 20 Apr. 2/1 A piecework statement for welted work at Northampton should be prepared. 1905Westm. Gaz. 30 Oct. 7/3 Hitherto America has produced practically all the machinery for the making of welted boots.
2. Nat. Hist. Furnished with a raised welt or projecting edge. welted thistle: see thistle 3.
1597Gerarde Herbal i. xxxv. §8. 50 The flower [of the Germaine Flower de-luce]..consisting of sixe great leaues,..welted downe the middle. 1599― Catal. Arb. in horto 4 Brassica fimbriata. Welted Colewoorts. 1703Petiver in Phil. Trans. XXIV. 1424 (2) These Leaves very much resemble the Virginian Sumach, with a winged or welted Stalk. 1712J. Morton Nat. Hist. Northampt. 429 Fowls of the Fin-toed Tribe, that is, such as have their Toes welted or Finn'd, as it were, all along on each Side with appendant Membranes; but not webb'd together, by an intervening Skin, as are those of Ducks. 1713Phil. Trans. XXVIII. 51 Its deep Scarlet Flowers, and square welted Pods.
b. Marked with a ridge or with ridges.
1899Baring-Gould Bk. West II. v. 61 The face of the moor is in places welted to such an extent that it alters the character of the scene.
3. Marked with a welt or raised wound or mark of a lash.
1855Wiseman Fabiola ii. xxi, The mangled limbs, and welted backs, of the tortured Christians. 1908Westm. Gaz. 15 Jan. 3/1 The unfortunate servant of the Christian was set free and given 5 dols. Hassani, to heal his welted skin.
4. welted joint, a plumbers' joint made by turning the edges to be joined, one over the other, and pressing them together.
1888J. W. Clarke Plumbing Pract. ix. 94 About two years ago, a series of lectures was given by a master plumber..and he showed a specimen of a welted joint. 1892Dict. Archit. (Arch. Publ. Soc.), Welted joint. The old system of making a junction of the sides of two lengths of lead on a church roof, is preferred to the present system of a deal roll. |