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welting, vbl. n.|ˈwɛltɪŋ|
Also Sc. and north. 6 wawting, 7 valting, 7–8 walting, 8 ? waiting; 7, 9 waltin, 9 wattin.
[f. welt v.1 + -ing1.]
1. The action of furnishing with a welt.
a. The edging, binding, or ornamenting (a garment) with a welt or welts; chiefly concr., an edging, a border, fringe.
1508Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. IV. 135 Item, for grathing of foure sadilles..and wawting of thaim with wellus, xlviij s. 1552in Feuillerat Revels Edw. VI (1914) 119 The garmentes welted aboute with blew & yellow gould tinsell conteyning xxxti yardes weltinge. 1558― Revels Q. Eliz. (1908) 23, viii plackardes of the same Maske and the welting and jagginge therof. 1600Rowlands Letting Humours Blood ii. 54 The welting hath him in no chardges stood, Being the ruines of a cast French hood. 1647Caldwell Papers (Maitl. Club) I. 100 Item for 4 elnes of Tours waltings to his claithes 0 10 0. 1737Ochtertyre House Booke of Accomps (S.H.S. 1907) 80 For 3/4 of a yeard of cherry waiting [sic: the Glossary gives wating]. 1875Plain Needlework 16 They can be stitched (like welting) and finished off with strings. 1881Leicestersh. Gloss., Welting,..a seam; a seaming.
transf.1894Blackmore Perlycross xxi, A westerly breeze played with the half ripe pods of gorse, and the brown welting of the heather.
b. in techn. senses, esp. in shoemaking.
1795W. Felton Carriages (1801) II. Gloss., Welting is the sewing a narrow strip of leather over the corner seams,..which..keeps out the wet. 1889Pall Mall Gaz. 15 Jan. 6/2 [Shoe trade.] Welting machinery is making progress, and hand labour for welting is being trained. 1893E. Rosevear Text-bk. Needlework etc. 405 Welting or Ribbing is usually knitted at the top of stockings, socks, muffatees, and sometimes throughout a garment.
2. A beating, a thrashing.
1840H. Cockton Val. Vox xii, Do you want a good welting? ony say, and you shall catch, my dear, the blessedest rope's-ending you ever had any notion on yet. 1862H. Marryat Year in Sweden I. 233 She received a sound welting..from her father. 1887G. Meredith Poet. Wks. (1912) 191 He [a dog] bewhimpered his welting, and I Scarce thought it enough for him.
3. attrib., as welting cord; † welting stake, some kind of armourer's anvil.
1660in Meyrick Ant. Armour (1824) III. 128 Welting stakes. 1887Jamieson Suppl., Waltin-Cord, Wattin-Cord, cord used in forming welts for seams and hems of gowns. |